Definition of Ranunculales

1. Noun. Herbs, shrubs and trees: includes families Ranunculaceae; Annonaceae; Berberidaceae; Magnoliaceae; Menispermaceae; Myristicaceae; Nymphaeaceae; Lardizabalaceae; Lauraceae; Calycanthaceae; Ceratophyllaceae; Cercidiphyllaceae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Ranunculales

Ranier
Ranikhet disease
Ranke's angle
Ranke's formula
Rankin
Rankin's clamp
Rankine
Rankine cycle
Rankine scale
Ransohoff's sign
Ranter
Ranterism
Ranters
Rantism
Ranunculaceae
Ranunculales (current term)
Ranunculus acris
Ranunculus aquatilis
Ranunculus bulbosus
Ranunculus ficaria
Ranunculus flammula
Ranunculus glaberrimus
Ranunculus lingua
Ranunculus lyalii
Ranunculus occidentalis
Ranunculus repens
Ranunculus sceleratus
Ranvier's crosses
Ranvier's disks
Ranvier's node

Literary usage of Ranunculales

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

1. Report (1913)
"Common. Order XVII. Ranunculales. Family 32. Ranunculaceae. 178. Caltha palustris, Lin. Cowslip. ..."

2. Principles of Botany by Joseph Young Bergen, Bradley Moore Davis (1906)
"The buttercup order, Ranunculales, a large assemblage of about 4000 species, full of interesting gradations in floral evolution, the buttercup family ..."

3. Wild Flowers of the North American Mountains by Julia Wilmotte Henderson Henshaw (1915)
"Ranunculales XXVIII. NYMPH.EACE.E. WATER LILY FAMILY Aquatic perennial herbs with horizontal rootstocks; leaves peltate or deeply cordate, involute from ..."

4. Principles of Botany by Joseph Young Bergen, Bradley Moore Davis (1906)
"The buttercup order, Ranunculales, a large assemblage of about 4000 species, full of interesting gradations in floral evolution, the buttercup family ..."

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