English > Liliales: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | An order of monocotyledonous plants including Amaryllidaceae and Liliaceae and Iridaceae. |
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| Synonym | order Liliales |
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| Member of | Liliidae, subclass Liliidae | One of four subclasses or superorders of Monocotyledones |
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| Members | Agavaceae, family Agavaceae, agave family, sisal family | chiefly tropical and xerophytic plants |
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| Amaryllidaceae, family Amaryllidaceae, amaryllis family | snowdrop |
| Dioscoreaceae, family Dioscoreaceae, yam family | yams |
| Haemodoraceae, family Haemodoraceae, bloodwort family | Some genera placed in family Liliaceae |
| Hypoxidaceae, family Hypoxidaceae | In some classification systems included in the Amaryllidaceae |
| Iridaceae, family Iridaceae, iris family | large family of usually perennial geophytic herbs with rhizomes or corms or bulbs |
| Juncaceae, family Juncaceae, rush family | tufted herbs resembling grasses |
| Liliaceae, family Liliaceae, lily family | Includes species sometimes divided among the following families |
| Taccaceae, family Taccaceae | small family of tropical herbs |
| Trilliaceae, family Trilliaceae, trillium family | small family of herbs having flowers with 3 petals and 3 sepals |
| Broader | plant order | The order of plants |
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| Spanish | liliales |
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| Catalan | liliales, Liliales, Lilial |
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