RANALIAN COMPLEX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ranalian complex mean? 

• RANALIAN COMPLEX (noun)
  The noun RANALIAN COMPLEX has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: RANALIAN COMPLEX used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RANALIAN COMPLEX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Magnoliidae; ranalian complex; subclass Magnoliidae

Hypernyms ("ranalian complex" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "ranalian complex"):

magnoliid dicot family (family of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

order Ranales; order Ranunculales; Ranales; Ranunculales (herbs, shrubs and trees: includes families Ranunculaceae; Annonaceae; Berberidaceae; Magnoliaceae; Menispermaceae; Myristicaceae; Nymphaeaceae; Lardizabalaceae; Lauraceae; Calycanthaceae; Ceratophyllaceae; Cercidiphyllaceae)

Holonyms ("ranalian complex" is a member of...):

class Dicotyledonae; class Dicotyledones; class Magnoliopsida; Dicotyledonae; Dicotyledones; Magnoliopsida (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)