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Elaeocarpaceae
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malvales
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Malvales \Malvales\ n. A natural order of plants including the families Malvaceae , Bombacaceae , Elaeocarpaceae , Sterculiaceae , and Tiliaceae . Syn: order Malvales .
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The Malvales are an order of flowering plants . As circumscribed by APG II -system, the order includes about 6000 species within 9 families . The order is placed in the eurosids II , which are part of the eudicots . The plants are mostly shrubs and trees ...
Usage examples of malvales.
Now, although it is probable that with the Leguminosae the tendency to sleep may have been inherited from one or a few progenitors, and possibly so in the cohorts of the Malvales and Chenopodiales, yet it is manifest that the tendency must have been acquired by the several genera in the other families, quite independently of one another.