Rosales
9.1
A group of plants that have flowers and includes roses and plants like them
- noun
- /roʊˈzeɪliz/
- Specialized
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Rosales
Synonyms
8.1
A large group of flowering plants that includes roses and elms
notes that legumes may be excluded in some classifications
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Rosales comes from the Latin root rosa meaning 'rose' and the plant-order ending -ales. So Rosales is the 'group' of flowering plants that are related to the rose family.