Polemoniales

plural noun

Pol·​e·​mo·​ni·​a·​les

: 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

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from Polemonium + -ales

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