Definition of Geraniales

1. Noun. An order of plants of subclass Rosidae including geraniums and many other plants; see Euphorbiaceae; Geraniaceae; Rutaceae; Malpighiaceae; Simaroubaceae; Meliaceae; Zygophyllaceae; Tropaeolaceae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Geraniales

Georgie Porgie
Georgina
Georgios
Georgism
Geothlypis
Geothlypis trichas
Geraghty
Geraghty's test
Geraint
Gerald
Gerald Ford
Gerald R. Ford
Gerald Rudolph Ford
Geraldine
Geraniaceae
Geraniales (current term)
Geranium maculatum
Geranium molle
Geranium pratense
Geranium richardsonii
Geranium robertianum
Geranium viscosissimum
Gerard
Gerard Depardieu
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerardia pedicularia
Gerardia virginica
Gerardus Mercator
Gerbera
Gerbera jamesonii

Literary usage of Geraniales

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

1. Flora of Pennsylvania by Thomas Conrad Porter (1903)
"Order Geraniales. 192 Stigmas or styles all distinct or all united, neither cleft nor ... Families in Order Geraniales. 192 Leaves with simple blades. ..."

2. Handbook of the Flora of Philadelphia and Vicinity: Containing Data Relating by Ida Augusta Keller, Stewardson Brown (1905)
".AILANTHUS IN Geraniales S09 Low shrub, with pinnate leaves or herbs, not fleshy. ... GERANIACEAE IN Geraniales 205 ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1914)
"The order Geraniales includes 21 families, with upwards of ten thousand existing species, of which nearly one half belong to the family ..."

4. Morphology of Angiosperms: (Morphology of Spermatophytes. Part II) by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1903)
"The orientation of the ovules that separates this alliance from the Geraniales was referred to under that alliance. Engler recognizes so many lines of ..."

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