UMBELLALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Umbellales mean? 

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

1. plants having umbels or corymbs of uniovulate flowers; includes the Umbelliferae (chiefly herbs) and Cornaceae (chiefly trees or shrubs)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UMBELLALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Plants having umbels or corymbs of uniovulate flowers; includes the Umbelliferae (chiefly herbs) and Cornaceae (chiefly trees or shrubs)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

order Umbellales; Umbellales

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

plant order (the order of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Umbellales"):

Araliaceae; family Araliaceae; ivy family (mostly tropical trees and shrubs and lianas: genera Panax and Hedera)

Apiaceae; carrot family; family Apiaceae; family Umbelliferae; Umbelliferae (plants having flowers in umbels: parsley; carrot; anise; caraway; celery; dill)

Cornaceae; dogwood family; family Cornaceae (a rosid dicot family of the order Umbellales including: genera Aucuba, Cornus, Corokia, Curtisia, Griselinia, Helwingia)

Holonyms ("Umbellales" 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)