Definition of Alismales

1. Noun. An order of aquatic monocotyledonous herbaceous plants.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Alismales

Alice bands
Alice blue
Alice chess
Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland syndrome
Alicia
Alicia Alonso
Alicorns
Alimos
Alina
Aline
Alioth
Alisha
Alisma
Alisma plantago-aquatica
Alismales (current term)
Alismataceae
Alismatidae
Alison
Alistair
Alistair Cooke
Alitalia
Alix
Aliyah
Alka-seltzer
Alkaid
Alkaios
Alkeran
Alkincoats
Alkman

Literary usage of Alismales

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

1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1902)
"In Aponogeton, one of the Alismales, the sheathing base of the single cotyledon develops a pair of stipule-like lobes, which remotely suggest the two large ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1901)
"In some Alismales—Sagittaria, Limnocharis, Aponogeton—essentially the same phenomenon, the production of root-hairs solely from predetermined hair-cells, ..."

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