PROTEALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Proteales mean? 

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

1. coextensive with the family Proteaceae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROTEALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coextensive with the family Proteaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

order Proteales; Proteales

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

plant order (the order of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Proteales"):

family Proteaceae; protea family; Proteaceae (large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers; constitutes the order Proteales)

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

class Dicotyledonae; class Dicotyledones; class Magnoliopsida; Dicotyledonae; Dicotyledones; Magnoliopsida (comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with paired cotyledons and net-veined leaves; divided into six (not always well distinguished) subclasses (or superorders): Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae (considered primitive); Caryophyllidae (an early and distinctive offshoot); and three more or less advanced groups: Dilleniidae; Rosidae; Asteridae)