Akademik

Sphaerocarpales

noun

small order sometimes included in the order Jungermanniales

• Syn: ↑order Sphaerocarpales

• Hypernyms: ↑plant order

• Member Holonyms: ↑Hepaticopsida, ↑class Hepaticopsida, ↑Hepaticae, ↑class Hepaticae

• Member Meronyms: ↑Sphaerocarpaceae, ↑family Sphaerocarpaceae

* * *

\\-ā(ˌ)lēz\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Sphaerocarpus + -ales

: a small order of Hepaticae comprising liverworts with an involucre around each archegonium — see sphaerocarpaceae

Useful english dictionary. 2012.