Dioscoreales
Translingual
Etymology
Dioscorea + -ales
Proper noun
Dioscoreales
- A taxonomic order within the clade monocots – plants, including the yams.
Hypernyms
- (order): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Plantae - kingdom; Viridiplantae - subkingdom; Streptophyta - infrakingdom; Embryophyta - superphylum; Tracheophyta - phylum; Spermatophytina - subphylum; angiosperms, monocots - clades
Hyponyms
- (order): Burmanniaceae, Dioscoreaceae, Nartheciaceae, Taccaceae, Thismiaceae - families
Further reading
- Dioscoreales on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Dioscoreales on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Dioscoreales on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Dioscoreales at APWeb
- Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521