Palmales

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Palmales \Palmales\ prop. n.
     A natural family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs
     coextensive with the family {Palmae}; -- the palms.
  
     Syn: order {Palmales}.
          [WordNet 1.5]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Palmales
       n : coextensive with the family Palmae: palms [syn: {order
           Palmales}]