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MAGNOLIID DICOT FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Family of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("magnoliid dicot family" is a kind of...):
dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "magnoliid dicot family"):
family Winteraceae; winter's bark family; Winteraceae (small family of chiefly tropical shrubs and trees of genera Drimys and Pseudowintera; sometimes included in Magnoliaceae)
buttercup family; crowfoot family; family Ranunculaceae; Ranunculaceae (a family of Ranunculaceae)
family Paeoniaceae; Paeoniaceae; peony family (perennial rhizomatous herbs and shrubs; of temperate Europe and North America)
Cabombaceae; subfamily Cabombaceae; water-shield family (in some classifications considered an independent family of water lilies; comprises the genera Cabomba and Brasenia)
Nelumbonaceae; subfamily Nelumbonaceae (in some classifications considered an independent family of water lilies; comprises the single genus Nelumbo)
family Nymphaeaceae; Nymphaeaceae; water-lily family (dicot aquatic plants)
family Myristicaceae; Myristicaceae; nutmeg family (family of aromatic tropical trees with arillate seeds)
family Menispermaceae; Menispermaceae; moonseed family (herbaceous or woody climbers)
family Magnoliaceae; magnolia family; Magnoliaceae (subclass Magnoliidae: genera Liriodendron, Magnolia, and Manglietia)
family Lauraceae; Lauraceae; laurel family (a family of Lauraceae)
family Lardizabalaceae; lardizabala family; Lardizabalaceae (thick-stemmed lianas and some shrubs; some have edible fruit)
Cercidiphyllaceae; family Cercidiphyllaceae (one genus)
Ceratophyllaceae; family Ceratophyllaceae (coextensive with the genus Ceratophyllum: hornworts)
Calycanthaceae; calycanthus family; family Calycanthaceae; strawberry-shrub family (shrubs or small trees having aromatic bark; the eastern United States and eastern Asia)
barberry family; Berberidaceae; family Berberidaceae (shrubs or herbs)
Annonaceae; custard-apple family; family Annonaceae (chiefly tropical trees or shrubs)
Holonyms ("magnoliid dicot family" is a member of...):
Magnoliidae; ranalian complex; subclass Magnoliidae (a group of families of trees and shrubs and herbs having well-developed perianths and apocarpous ovaries and generally regarded as the most primitive extant flowering plants; contains 36 families including Magnoliaceae and Ranunculaceae; sometimes classified as a superorder)
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