noun
an order of dicotyledonous plants
• Syn: ↑order Rhamnales
• Hypernyms: ↑plant order
• Member Holonyms: ↑Dicotyledones, ↑class Dicotyledones, ↑Dicotyledonae, ↑class Dicotyledonae, ↑Magnoliopsida, ↑class Magnoliopsida
• Member Meronyms:
↑Rhamnaceae, ↑family Rhamnaceae, ↑buckthorn family, ↑Vitaceae, ↑family Vitaceae, ↑Vitidaceae, ↑grapevine family
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\\ramˈnā(ˌ)lēz\ noun pluralUsage: capitalized
: an order of dicotyledonous woody plants in which the stamens are equal in number with the sepals and alternate with them and the ovary is surrounded by a disk
Useful english dictionary. 2012.