RUBIALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Rubiales mean? 

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

1. an order of dicotyledonous plants of the subclass Asteridae; have opposite leaves and an inferior compound ovary

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUBIALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An order of dicotyledonous plants of the subclass Asteridae; have opposite leaves and an inferior compound ovary

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

order Rubiales; Rubiales

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

plant order (the order of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Rubiales"):

family Rubiaceae; madder family; Rubiaceae (widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry)

Caprifoliaceae; family Caprifoliaceae; honeysuckle family (shrubs and small trees and woody vines)

Dipsacaceae; family Dipsacaceae (chiefly southern European herbs with flowers usually in dense cymose heads)

family Valerianaceae; valerian family; Valerianaceae (genus of mostly herbs having a characteristic fetid odor)

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

Asteridae; subclass Asteridae (a group of mostly sympetalous herbs and some trees and shrubs mostly with 2 fused carpels; contains 43 families including Campanulales; Solanaceae; Scrophulariaceae; Labiatae; Verbenaceae; Rubiaceae; Compositae; sometimes classified as a superorder)