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ORDER SPHAGNALES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does order Sphagnales mean?
• ORDER SPHAGNALES (noun)
The noun ORDER SPHAGNALES has 1 sense:
1. coextensive with the genus Sphagnum; in some classifications isolated in a separate subclass
Familiarity information: ORDER SPHAGNALES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coextensive with the genus Sphagnum; in some classifications isolated in a separate subclass
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
order Sphagnales; Sphagnales
Hypernyms ("order Sphagnales" is a kind of...):
plant order (the order of plants)
Meronyms (members of "order Sphagnales"):
genus Sphagnum (a large genus constituting the order Sphagnales: atypical mosses of temperate bogs with leaves that can hold much water)
Holonyms ("order Sphagnales" is a member of...):
Bryopsida; class Bryopsida; class Musci; Musci (true mosses: bryophytes having leafy rather than thalloid gametophytes: comprises orders Andreaeales; Bryales; Dicranales; Eubryales; Sphagnales)
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