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Definition of Casuarinales
1. Noun. Order of chiefly Australian trees and shrubs comprising the casuarinas; 1 family: Casuarinaceae.
Generic synonyms: Plant Order
Group relationships: Class Dicotyledonae, Class Dicotyledones, Class Magnoliopsida, Dicotyledonae, Dicotyledones, Magnoliopsida
Member holonyms: Casuarinaceae, Family Casuarinaceae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Casuarinales
Literary usage of Casuarinales
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1914)
"The presence of the primitive Casuarinales and Piperales might be expected
especially since there is a well marked Piper-like form in the Upper Cretaceous ..."
2. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"Order Casuarinales, confined to tropical seacoasts (example, Casuarina). 1200.
Order Piperales includes the lizard's-tail family (Sau- ..."
3. Flora of Miami: Being Descriptions of the Seed-plants Growing Naturally on by John Kunkel Small (1913)
"Order Casuarinales. Shrubs or trees, with loosely jointed branches resembling
stems of Equisetum. Leaves reduced to scales, whorled at the nodes and ..."
4. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"Order Casuarinales, confined to tropical seacoasts (example, Casuarina). 1200.
Order Piperales includes the lizard's-tail family (Sau- ..."
5. Professional Paper by Geological Survey (U.S.) (1916)
"The presence of the primitive Casuarinales and Piperales might be expected,
especially since there is a well-marked Piper-like form in the Upper Cretaceous ..."
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