ASTERIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Asteridae mean? 

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

1. 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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASTERIDAE (noun)

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Meaning:

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

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Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Asteridae; subclass Asteridae

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Asteridae"):

asterid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Campanulales; order Campanulales (an order of plants of the subclass Asteridae including: Campanulaceae; Lobeliaceae; Cucurbitaceae; Goodeniaceae; Compositae)

order Rubiales; Rubiales (an order of dicotyledonous plants of the subclass Asteridae; have opposite leaves and an inferior compound ovary)

order Polemoniales; Polemoniales (Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales)

Holonyms ("Asteridae" 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)