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Palmales

noun

coextensive with the family Palmae: palms

• Syn: ↑order Palmales

• Hypernyms: ↑plant order

• Member Holonyms: ↑Arecidae, ↑subclass Arecidae

• Member Meronyms:

↑Palmae, ↑family Palmae, ↑Palmaceae, ↑family Palmaceae, ↑Arecaceae, ↑family Arecaceae, ↑palm family

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\\palˈmā(ˌ)lēz, päˈm-\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Latin palma palm + New Latin -ales

: a large order of chiefly tropical monocotyledonous plants that is coextensive with the family Palmae and in some classifications includes also the Cyclanthales

Useful english dictionary. 2012.