ORCHIDALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Orchidales mean? 

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

1. order of plants with irregular flowers having minute seeds: Orchidaceae; Burmanniaceae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORCHIDALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Order of plants with irregular flowers having minute seeds: Orchidaceae; Burmanniaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Orchidales; order Orchidales

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

plant order (the order of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Orchidales"):

family Orchidaceae; orchid family; Orchidaceae (enormous cosmopolitan family of perennial terrestrial or epiphytic plants with fleshy tubers or rootstocks and unusual flowers)

Burmanniaceae; family Burmanniaceae (family of chiefly tropical herbs with basal leaves like bracts and small flowers)

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

Liliidae; subclass Liliidae (one of four subclasses or superorders of Monocotyledones; comprises 17 families including: Liliaceae; Alliaceae; Amaryllidaceae; Iridaceae; Orchidaceae; Trilliaceae)