ROSALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Rosales mean? 

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

1. in some classifications this category does not include Leguminosae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROSALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In some classifications this category does not include Leguminosae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

order Rosales; Rosales

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

plant order (the order of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Rosales"):

Connaraceae; family Connaraceae; zebrawood family (mostly tropical climbing shrubs or small trees; closely related to Leguminosae)

Connarus; genus Connarus (large genus of tropical trees and shrubs; type genus of the Connaraceae)

Fabaceae; family Fabaceae; family Leguminosae; legume family; Leguminosae; pea family (a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae)

family Rosaceae; Rosaceae; rose family (a large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens)

Cephalotaceae; family Cephalotaceae (a family of plants of order Rosales; coextensive with the genus Cephalotus)

Crassulaceae; family Crassulaceae; stonecrop family (succulent shrubs and herbs)

cunonia family; Cunoniaceae; family Cunoniaceae (trees or shrubs or climbers; mostly southern hemisphere)

family Hydrangeaceae; hydrangea family; Hydrangeaceae (sometimes included in the family Saxifragaceae)

family Saxifragaceae; Saxifragaceae; saxifrage family (a large and diverse family of evergreen or deciduous herbs; widely distributed in northern temperate and cold regions; sometimes includes genera of the family Hydrangeaceae)

family Grossulariaceae; gooseberry family; Grossulariaceae (in some classifications considered a part of the family Saxifragaceae: plants whose fruit is a berry)

family Platanaceae; plane-tree family; Platanaceae (coextensive with the genus Platanus: plane trees)

Holonyms ("Rosales" 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)