DILLENIIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Dilleniidae mean? 

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

1. 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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DILLENIIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

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Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Dilleniidae; subclass Dilleniidae

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Dilleniidae"):

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

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

order Papaverales; order Rhoeadales; Papaverales; Rhoeadales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)

Malvales; order Malvales (Malvaceae; Bombacaceae; Elaeocarpaceae; Sterculiaceae; Tiliaceae)

Ericales; order Ericales (Ericaceae; Clethraceae; Diapensiaceae; Epacridaceae; Lennoaceae; Pyrolaceae; Monotropaceae)

Hypericales; order Hypericales; order Parietales; Parietales (a large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae)

Guttiferales; order Guttiferales (used in some classifications; coextensive with Parietales)

order Santalales; Santalales (order of plants distinguished by having a one-celled inferior ovary; many are parasitic or partly parasitic usually on roots)

Holonyms ("Dilleniidae" 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)