CARYOPHYLLALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Caryophyllales mean? 

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

1. corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARYOPHYLLALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Caryophyllales; Chenopodiales; order-Chenopodiales; order Caryophyllales

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

plant order (the order of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Caryophyllales"):

carnation family; Caryophyllaceae; family Caryophyllaceae; pink family (large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes))

Aizoaceae; carpetweed family; family Aizoaceae; family Tetragoniaceae; Tetragoniaceae (succulent herbs or small shrubs mostly of South Africa but also New Zealand and North America: carpetweeds; fig marigolds)

amaranth family; Amaranthaceae; family Amaranthaceae (cosmopolitan family of herbs and shrubs)

Batidaceae; family Batidaceae; saltwort family (family coextensive with genus Batis: saltworts)

Chenopodiaceae; family Chenopodiaceae; goosefoot family (includes spinach and beets)

Allioniaceae; family Allioniaceae; family Nyctaginaceae; four-o'clock family; Nyctaginaceae (a family of flowering plants of the order Caryophyllales)

family Phytolaccaceae; Phytolaccaceae; pokeweed family (chiefly tropical herbaceous plants (including shrubs and trees) with racemose flowers: genera Phytolacca, Agdestis, Ercilla, Rivina, Trichostigma)

family Portulacaceae; Portulacaceae; purslane family (family of usually succulent herbs; cosmopolitan in distribution especially in Americas)

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

Caryophyllidae; subclass Caryophyllidae (a group of families of mostly flowers having basal or central placentation and trinucleate pollen (binucleate pollen is commoner in flowering plants); contains 14 families including: Caryophyllaceae (carnations and pinks); Aizoaceae; Amaranthaceae; Batidaceae; Chenopodiaceae; Cactaceae (order Opuntiales); Nyctaginaceae; Phytolaccaceae; corresponds approximately to order Caryophyllales; sometimes classified as a superorder)