ROSIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Rosidae mean? 

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

1. a group of trees and shrubs and herbs mostly with polypetalous flowers; contains 108 families including Rosaceae; Crassulaceae; Myrtaceae; Melastomaceae; Euphorbiaceae; Umbelliferae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROSIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of trees and shrubs and herbs mostly with polypetalous flowers; contains 108 families including Rosaceae; Crassulaceae; Myrtaceae; Melastomaceae; Euphorbiaceae; Umbelliferae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Rosidae; subclass Rosidae

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Rosidae"):

rosid dicot family (a family of dicotyledonous plants)

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

order Umbellales; Umbellales (plants having umbels or corymbs of uniovulate flowers; includes the Umbelliferae (chiefly herbs) and Cornaceae (chiefly trees or shrubs))

Myrtales; order Myrtales; order Thymelaeales; Thymelaeales (Myrtaceae; Combretaceae; Elaeagnaceae; Haloragidaceae; Melastomaceae; Lecythidaceae; Lythraceae; Rhizophoraceae; Onagraceae; Lecythidaceae; Punicaceae)

order Rosales; Rosales (in some classifications this category does not include Leguminosae)

Geraniales; order Geraniales (an order of plants of subclass Rosidae including geraniums and many other plants; see Euphorbiaceae; Geraniaceae; Rutaceae; Malpighiaceae; Simaroubaceae; Meliaceae; Zygophyllaceae; Tropaeolaceae)

Holonyms ("Rosidae" 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)