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Diapensiales

noun

used in some classifications: coextensive with family Diapensiaceae

• Syn: ↑order Diapensiales

• Hypernyms: ↑plant order

• Member Holonyms: ↑Dicotyledones, ↑class Dicotyledones, ↑Dicotyledonae, ↑class Dicotyledonae, ↑Magnoliopsida, ↑class Magnoliopsida

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\\ˌdīəˌpensēˈā(ˌ)lēz\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Diapensia + -ales

in some classifications : an order of low evergreen plants distinguished from those of the order Ericales by a tricarpellate ovary and stamens in two whorls of which one is reduced to staminodia — see diapensiaceae

Useful english dictionary. 2012.