ARECIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Arecidae mean? 

• ARECIDAE (noun)
  The noun ARECIDAE has 1 sense:

1. one of four subclasses or superorder of Monocotyledones; comprises about 6400 species in 5 families of trees and shrubs and terrestrial herbs and a few free-floating aquatics including: Palmae; Araceae; Pandanaceae and Lemnaceae

  Familiarity information: ARECIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARECIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of four subclasses or superorder of Monocotyledones; comprises about 6400 species in 5 families of trees and shrubs and terrestrial herbs and a few free-floating aquatics including: Palmae; Araceae; Pandanaceae and Lemnaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Arecidae; subclass Arecidae

Hypernyms ("Arecidae" is a kind of...):

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

Meronyms (members of "Arecidae"):

Arales; order Arales (Araceae; Lemnaceae)

order Pandanales; Pandanales (families Typhaceae; Sparganiaceae; Pandanaceae)

order Palmales; Palmales (coextensive with the family Palmae: palms)

Holonyms ("Arecidae" is a member of...):

class Liliopsida; class Monocotyledonae; class Monocotyledones; Liliopsida; Monocotyledonae; Monocotyledones (comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with a single cotyledon and parallel-veined leaves: includes grasses and lilies and palms and orchids; divided into four subclasses or superorders: Alismatidae; Arecidae; Commelinidae; and Liliidae)