LILIIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Liliidae mean? 

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

1. one of four subclasses or superorders of Monocotyledones; comprises 17 families including: Liliaceae; Alliaceae; Amaryllidaceae; Iridaceae; Orchidaceae; Trilliaceae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LILIIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of four subclasses or superorders of Monocotyledones; comprises 17 families including: Liliaceae; Alliaceae; Amaryllidaceae; Iridaceae; Orchidaceae; Trilliaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Liliidae; subclass Liliidae

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Liliidae"):

liliid monocot family (family of monocotyledonous plants of the subclass Liliidae; mostly herbs usually with petaloid sepals and petals and compound pistils)

liliid monocot genus (genus of monocotyledonous plants comprising mostly herbs having usually petaloid sepals and petals and compound pistils)

Orchidales; order Orchidales (order of plants with irregular flowers having minute seeds: Orchidaceae; Burmanniaceae)

Liliales; order Liliales (an order of monocotyledonous plants including Amaryllidaceae and Liliaceae and Iridaceae)

Holonyms ("Liliidae" 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)