ERICALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ericales mean? 

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

1. Ericaceae; Clethraceae; Diapensiaceae; Epacridaceae; Lennoaceae; Pyrolaceae; Monotropaceae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ERICALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ericaceae; Clethraceae; Diapensiaceae; Epacridaceae; Lennoaceae; Pyrolaceae; Monotropaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Ericales; order Ericales

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

plant order (the order of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Ericales"):

Clethraceae; family Clethraceae; white-alder family (coextensive with the genus Clethra)

diapensia family; Diapensiaceae; family Diapensiaceae (north temperate low evergreen plants; in some classifications placed in its own order Diapensiales)

Epacridaceae; epacris family; family Epacridaceae (Australasian shrubs or small trees)

family Lennoaceae; Lennoaceae (family of fleshy parasitic herbs lacking green foliage and having heads of small flowers; California and Mexico)

family Pyrolaceae; Pyrolaceae; wintergreen family (evergreen herbs of temperate regions: genera Pyrola, Chimaphila, Moneses, Orthilia)

family Monotropaceae; Monotropaceae (used in some classification for saprophytic herbs sometimes included in the family Pyrolaceae: genera Monotropa and Sarcodes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Ericales"):

Ericaceae; family Ericaceae; heath family (heathers)

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

Dilleniidae; subclass Dilleniidae (a group of families of more or less advanced trees and shrubs and herbs having either polypetalous or gamopetalous corollas and often with ovules attached to the walls of the ovary; contains 69 families including Ericaceae and Cruciferae and Malvaceae; sometimes classified as a superorder)