GERANIALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Geraniales mean? 

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

1. an order of plants of subclass Rosidae including geraniums and many other plants; see Euphorbiaceae; Geraniaceae; Rutaceae; Malpighiaceae; Simaroubaceae; Meliaceae; Zygophyllaceae; Tropaeolaceae

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• GERANIALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An order of plants of subclass Rosidae including geraniums and many other plants; see Euphorbiaceae; Geraniaceae; Rutaceae; Malpighiaceae; Simaroubaceae; Meliaceae; Zygophyllaceae; Tropaeolaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Geraniales; order Geraniales

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

plant order (the order of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Geraniales"):

family Meliaceae; mahogany family; Meliaceae (tropical trees and shrubs including many important timber and ornamental trees)

Euphorbiaceae; family Euphorbiaceae; spurge family (a family of plants of order Geraniales)

bean-caper family; family Zygophyllaceae; Zygophyllaceae (small trees, shrubs, and herbs of warm arid and saline regions; often resinous; some poisonous: genera Zygophyllum, Tribulus, Guaiacum, Larrea)

family Tropaeolaceae; nasturtium family; Tropaeolaceae (coextensive with the genus Tropaeolum)

family Simaroubaceae; quassia family; Simaroubaceae (chiefly tropical trees and shrubs with bitter bark having dry usually one-seeded winged fruit)

family Rutaceae; rue family; Rutaceae (a family of dicotyledonous plants of order Geraniales; have flowers that are divide into four or five parts and usually have a strong scent)

family Polygalaceae; milkwort family; Polygalaceae (trees, shrubs, and herbs widely distributed throughout both hemispheres)

family Oxalidaceae; Oxalidaceae; wood-sorrel family (a family of widely distributed herbs of the order Geraniales; have compound leaves and pentamerous flowers)

family Lepidobotryaceae; Lepidobotryaceae (family created in 1950 solely for the classification of a distinctive African tree repeatedly classified in other families; trees long believed to exist only in Africa)

family Malpighiaceae; Malpighiaceae (tropical shrubs or trees)

Callitrichaceae; family Callitrichaceae (dicot aquatic herbs)

Burseraceae; family Burseraceae; torchwood family (resinous or aromatic chiefly tropical shrubs or trees)

Erythroxylaceae; family Erythroxylaceae (a family of plants of order Geraniales; have drupaceous fruit)

family Geraniaceae; Geraniaceae; geranium family (chiefly herbaceous plants)

balsam family; Balsaminaceae; family Balsaminaceae (distinguished from the family Geraniaceae by the irregular flowers)

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

Rosidae; subclass Rosidae (a group of trees and shrubs and herbs mostly with polypetalous flowers; contains 108 families including Rosaceae; Crassulaceae; Myrtaceae; Melastomaceae; Euphorbiaceae; Umbelliferae)