Definition of Taxales

1. Noun. Coextensive with the family Taxaceae: yews.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Taxales

Taussig-Bing disease
Taussig-Bing syndrome
Tausug
Tautoga
Tautoga onitis
Tautogolabrus
Tautogolabrus adspersus
Tavastian
Tavastians
Tavros
Tawara
Tawara's node
Tawe
Tawney
Taxaceae
Taxales
Taxidea
Taxidea taxus
Taxodiaceae
Taxodium
Taxodium ascendens
Taxodium distichum
Taxodium mucronatum
Taxol
Taxophytina
Taxopsida
Taxus
Taxus baccata
Taxus brevifolia
Taxus cuspidata

Literary usage of Taxales

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... Juniperus (junipers), Thuya (arbor- vitae), Tsuga (hemlocks). Order 90. taxales. The plants of this order resemble closely those of the preceding one, ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"taxales. See PALEOBOTANY. TAXATION. What Is a Tax? —A distinction must be made between a tax and the ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"taxales. See PALEOBOTANY. TAXATION. What Is a Tax? —A distinction must be made between a tax and the ..."

4. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1920)
"It is proposed to place them in a separate group the taxales, distinct from Coniferales and nearer Ginkgo.—WP Thompson. 575. ST. JOHN, HAROLD. ..."

5. The Causes and Course of Organic Evolution: A Study of Bioenergics by John Muirhead Macfarlane (1918)
"But, while the stem structure, the flowers, and the fruit of the Ginkgoales and taxales show many marked points of affinity, the condensed leafage of the ..."

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