Definition of Polemoniales
:a large order of dicotyledonous herbs, shrubs, or trees having flowers with the stamens adnate to the corolla lobes and a single superior compound ovary
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Polemoniales
plural noun
Pol·e·mo·ni·a·les
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Origin and Etymology of polemoniales
New Latin, from Polemonium + -ales
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