CAMPANULALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Campanulales mean? 

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

1. an order of plants of the subclass Asteridae including: Campanulaceae; Lobeliaceae; Cucurbitaceae; Goodeniaceae; Compositae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAMPANULALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An order of plants of the subclass Asteridae including: Campanulaceae; Lobeliaceae; Cucurbitaceae; Goodeniaceae; Compositae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Campanulales; order Campanulales

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

plant order (the order of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Campanulales"):

aster family; Asteraceae; Compositae; family Asteraceae; family Compositae (plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia)

bellflower family; Campanulaceae; family Campanulaceae (family of plants of the order Campanulales; in some classifications includes Lobeliaceae)

Cucurbitaceae; family Cucurbitaceae; gourd family (a family of herbaceous vines (such as cucumber or melon or squash or pumpkin))

family Goodeniaceae; Goodenia family; Goodeniaceae (a family of sappy plants that grow in Australasia and southeast China)

family Lobeliaceae; lobelia family; Lobeliaceae (not recognized in all classification systems; in some classifications lobeliaceous plants are included in family Campanulaceae)

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

Asteridae; subclass Asteridae (a group of mostly sympetalous herbs and some trees and shrubs mostly with 2 fused carpels; contains 43 families including Campanulales; Solanaceae; Scrophulariaceae; Labiatae; Verbenaceae; Rubiaceae; Compositae; sometimes classified as a superorder)