Definition of Hypericales

1. Noun. A large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypericales

Hynes
Hynes pharyngoplasty
Hyogo
Hyoscyamus muticus
Hyoscyamus niger
Hyostrongylus rubidus
Hyp
Hypalon
Hypaque enema
Hypatia
Hypentelium
Hypentelium nigricans
Hyperborea
Hyperglyphe perciformis
Hypericaceae
Hypericales
Hypericum androsaemum
Hypericum ascyron
Hypericum calycinum
Hypericum crux andrae
Hypericum gentianoides
Hypericum hypericoides
Hypericum maculatum
Hypericum perforatum
Hypericum prolificum
Hypericum pyramidatum
Hypericum spathulatum
Hypericum tetrapterum
Hypericum virginianum
Hyperion

Literary usage of Hypericales

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

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"hypericales (Parietales). Sepals distinct, mostly persistent. Endosperm little or none. Trees or shrubs with alternate leaves, and large solitary axillary ..."

2. Flora of Miami: Being Descriptions of the Seed-plants Growing Naturally on by John Kunkel Small (1913)
"Turneraceae In Order hypericales. Anther with the conspicuous connective produced beyond the sacs. ..."

3. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1838)
"hypericales.—Leaves simple ; stipules 0. Flowers regular. Sepals 2-7, in a broken series, imbricated. Corolla hypogynous, of 4-10 divisions. ..."

4. What comes from what, or, The relationships of animals and plants by Charles L. Abbott (1922)
"hypericales, etc. From the Tea family have been developed, directly or indirectly, the wax-flowers, St. John's-wort, the rock rose, and the Indian plum. ..."

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