DICOTYLEDONES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Dicotyledones mean? 

• DICOTYLEDONES (noun)
  The noun DICOTYLEDONES has 1 sense:

1. comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with paired cotyledons and net-veined leaves; divided into six (not always well distinguished) subclasses (or superorders): Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae (considered primitive); Caryophyllidae (an early and distinctive offshoot); and three more or less advanced groups: Dilleniidae; Rosidae; Asteridae

  Familiarity information: DICOTYLEDONES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DICOTYLEDONES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with paired cotyledons and net-veined leaves; divided into six (not always well distinguished) subclasses (or superorders): Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae (considered primitive); Caryophyllidae (an early and distinctive offshoot); and three more or less advanced groups: Dilleniidae; Rosidae; Asteridae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

class Dicotyledonae; class Dicotyledones; class Magnoliopsida; Dicotyledonae; Dicotyledones; Magnoliopsida

Hypernyms ("Dicotyledones" is a kind of...):

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

Meronyms (members of "Dicotyledones"):

Diapensiales; order Diapensiales (used in some classifications: coextensive with family Diapensiaceae)

order Piperales; Piperales (Piperaceae; Saururaceae; Chloranthaceae)

order Rhamnales; Rhamnales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)

order Scrophulariales; Scrophulariales (used in some classification systems; often included in the order Polemoniales)

order Sarraceniales; Sarraceniales (plants that are variously modified to serve as insect traps: families Sarraceniaceae; Nepenthaceae; Droseraceae)

Ebenales; order Ebenales (trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae)

order Sapindales; Sapindales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)

order Salicales; Salicales (coextensive with the family Salicaceae)

order Polygonales; Polygonales (coextensive with the family Polygonaceae,)

order Plantaginales; Plantaginales (coextensive with the family Plantaginaceae)

order Urticales; Urticales (an order of dicotyledonous plants including Moraceae and Urticaceae and Ulmaceae)

Dilleniidae; subclass Dilleniidae (a group of families of more or less advanced trees and shrubs and herbs having either polypetalous or gamopetalous corollas and often with ovules attached to the walls of the ovary; contains 69 families including Ericaceae and Cruciferae and Malvaceae; sometimes classified as a superorder)

Juglandales; order Juglandales (coextensive with the family Juglandaceae)

Hamamelidae; subclass Hamamelidae (a group of chiefly woody plants considered among the most primitive of angiosperms; perianth poorly developed or lacking; flowers often unisexual and often in catkins and often wind pollinated; contains 23 families including the Betulaceae and Fagaceae (includes the Amentiferae); sometimes classified as a superorder)

Oleales; order Oleales (coextensive with the family Oleaceae; in some classifications included in the order Gentianales)

Gentianales; order Gentianales (an order of dicotyledonous plants having gamopetalous flowers; Gentianaceae; Apocynaceae; Asclepiadaceae; Loganiaceae; Oleaceae; Salvadoraceae)

Casuarinales; order Casuarinales (order of chiefly Australian trees and shrubs comprising the casuarinas; 1 family: Casuarinaceae)

order Proteales; Proteales (coextensive with the family Proteaceae)

Rosidae; subclass Rosidae (a group of trees and shrubs and herbs mostly with polypetalous flowers; contains 108 families including Rosaceae; Crassulaceae; Myrtaceae; Melastomaceae; Euphorbiaceae; Umbelliferae)

order Primulales; Primulales (Primulaceae; Theophrastaceae; Myrsinaceae; and (in some classifications) Plumbaginaceae)

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)

Caryophyllidae; subclass Caryophyllidae (a group of families of mostly flowers having basal or central placentation and trinucleate pollen (binucleate pollen is commoner in flowering plants); contains 14 families including: Caryophyllaceae (carnations and pinks); Aizoaceae; Amaranthaceae; Batidaceae; Chenopodiaceae; Cactaceae (order Opuntiales); Nyctaginaceae; Phytolaccaceae; corresponds approximately to order Caryophyllales; sometimes classified as a superorder)

Aristolochiales; order Aristolochiales (order of plants distinguished by tubular petaloid perianth and inferior ovary)

Myricales; order Myricales (coextensive with the family Myricaceae)

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)

dicot; dicotyledon; exogen; magnoliopsid (flowering plant with two cotyledons; the stem grows by deposit on its outside)

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

liliopsid family; monocot family (family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Holonyms ("Dicotyledones" is a member of...):

Angiospermae; Anthophyta; class Angiospermae; division Anthophyta; division Magnoliophyta; Magnoliophyta (comprising flowering plants that produce seeds enclosed in an ovary; in some systems considered a class (Angiospermae) and in others a division (Magnoliophyta or Anthophyta))