Passiflorales
plural noun
Pas·si·flo·ra·les
Definition of Passiflorales
in some classifications
: an order of dicotyledonous herbs, tendril-bearing vines, shrubs, and trees that have alternate leaves, pentamerous flowers with a superior one-celled ovary, and a fruit which is a berry or capsule and that include plants now usually placed in Parietales and Cucurbitales
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Origin and Etymology of passiflorales
New Latin, from Passiflora + -ales
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