Aquifoliales

Translingual

Ilex aquifolium (common holly), typical of Aquifoliales

Etymology

Aquifolium (“former genus of holly”) +‎ -ales

Proper noun

Aquifoliales

1. A taxonomic order within the class Magnoliopsida – the hollies and similar plants.

Hypernyms

• (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids II – clades

Hyponyms

• (order): Aquifoliaceae, Cardiopteridaceae, Helwingiaceae, Phyllonomaceae, Stemonuraceae – families

References

• Aquifoliales on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Aquifoliales on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Aquifoliales on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Aquifoliales at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Aquifoliales at the Catalogue of Life 
• Aquifoliales at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Aquifoliales at APWeb
• “Aquifoliales”, in Paleobiology Database, 2025
• Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI