Akademik

Coniferales

noun

profusely branching and chiefly evergreen trees and some shrubs having narrow or needlelike leaves

• Hypernyms: ↑plant order

• Member Holonyms: ↑Coniferopsida, ↑class Coniferopsida, ↑Coniferophytina, ↑subdivision Coniferophytina, ↑Coniferophyta

• Member Meronyms:

↑Pinaceae, ↑family Pinaceae, ↑pine family, ↑Cupressaceae, ↑family Cupressaceae, ↑cypress family, ↑Araucariaceae, ↑family Araucariaceae, ↑araucaria family, ↑Cephalotaxaceae, ↑family Cephalotaxaceae, ↑plum-yew family, ↑Phyllocladaceae, ↑family Phyllocladaceae, ↑Podocarpaceae, ↑family Podocarpaceae, ↑podocarpus family, ↑Sciadopityaceae, ↑family Sciadopityaceae, ↑Taxaceae, ↑family Taxaceae, ↑yew family

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\\ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈrā(ˌ)lēz; ˌkänəfə-, ˌkōn-\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Latin conifer + New Latin -ales

: an order of chiefly evergreen gymnospermous trees and shrubs having acicular to linear or lanceolate leaves and the ovulate strobilus a woody cone or fleshy aril and comprising a variable number of families of which Taxaceae, Pinaceae, and Taxodiaceae are most generally recognized

Useful english dictionary. 2012.