MAGNOLIID DICOT FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does magnoliid dicot family mean? 

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

1. family of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAGNOLIID DICOT FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Family of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms

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Nouns denoting plants

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 Magnoliaceae; magnolia family; Magnoliaceae (subclass Magnoliidae: genera Liriodendron, Magnolia, and Manglietia)

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 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)