ASTERID DICOT FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does asterid dicot family mean? 

• ASTERID DICOT FAMILY (noun)
  The noun ASTERID DICOT FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs

  Familiarity information: ASTERID DICOT FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASTERID DICOT FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("asterid 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 "asterid dicot family"):

Bignoniaceae; family Bignoniaceae (trees or shrubs or woody vines or herbs having fruit resembling gourds or capsules; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales)

family Valerianaceae; valerian family; Valerianaceae (genus of mostly herbs having a characteristic fetid odor)

Avicenniaceae; family Avicenniaceae (used in some classifications: coextensive with the genus Avicennia)

family Verbenaceae; verbena family; Verbenaceae; vervain family (family of New World tropical and subtropical herbs and shrubs and trees)

family Solanaceae; potato family; Solanaceae (large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandra)

family Scrophulariaceae; figwort family; foxglove family; Scrophulariaceae (a family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales; includes figwort and snapdragon and foxglove and toadflax and speedwell and mullein; in some classifications placed in the order Scrophulariales)

family Labiatae; family Lamiaceae; Labiatae; Lamiaceae; mint family (a large family of aromatic herbs and shrubs having flowers resembling the lips of a mouth and four-lobed ovaries yielding four one-seeded nutlets and including mint; thyme; sage; rosemary)

family Hydrophyllaceae; Hydrophyllaceae; waterleaf family (perennial woodland herbs)

family Gesneriaceae; gesneria family; Gesneriaceae (large family of tropical herbs or shrubs or lianas; in some classification systems placed in the order Scrophulariales)

Acanthaceae; acanthus family; family Acanthaceae (widely distributed herbs and shrubs and trees; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales)

family Polemoniaceae; phlox family; Polemoniaceae (a widely distributed family of chiefly herbaceous plants of the order Polemoniales; often have showy flowers)

Dipsacaceae; family Dipsacaceae (chiefly southern European herbs with flowers usually in dense cymose heads)

Caprifoliaceae; family Caprifoliaceae; honeysuckle family (shrubs and small trees and woody vines)

family Rubiaceae; madder family; Rubiaceae (widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry)

Ambrosiaceae; family Ambrosiaceae (in some classifications considered a separate family comprising a subgroup of the Compositae including the ragweeds)

aster family; Asteraceae; Compositae; family Asteraceae; family Compositae (plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia)

Holonyms ("asterid dicot family" is a member of...):

Asteridae; subclass Asteridae (a group of mostly sympetalous herbs and some trees and shrubs mostly with 2 fused carpels; contains 43 families including Campanulales; Solanaceae; Scrophulariaceae; Labiatae; Verbenaceae; Rubiaceae; Compositae; sometimes classified as a superorder)