noun
one of four subclasses or superorder of Monocotyledones; comprises about 6400 species in 5 families of trees and shrubs and terrestrial herbs and a few free-floating aquatics including: Palmae; Araceae; Pandanaceae and Lemnaceae
• Syn: ↑Arecidae
• Hypernyms: ↑class
• Member Holonyms: ↑Monocotyledones, ↑class Monocotyledones, ↑Monocotyledonae, ↑class Monocotyledonae, ↑Liliopsida, ↑class Liliopsida
• Member Meronyms: ↑Arales, ↑order Arales, ↑Pandanales, ↑order Pandanales, ↑Palmales, ↑order Palmales
Useful english dictionary. 2012.