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CARYOPHYLLOID DICOT FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("caryophylloid 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 "caryophylloid dicot family"):
carnation family; Caryophyllaceae; family Caryophyllaceae; pink family (large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes))
genus Stellaria; Stellaria (common chickweed; stitchwort)
Aizoaceae; carpetweed family; family Aizoaceae; family Tetragoniaceae; Tetragoniaceae (succulent herbs or small shrubs mostly of South Africa but also New Zealand and North America: carpetweeds; fig marigolds)
amaranth family; Amaranthaceae; family Amaranthaceae (cosmopolitan family of herbs and shrubs)
Batidaceae; family Batidaceae; saltwort family (family coextensive with genus Batis: saltworts)
Chenopodiaceae; family Chenopodiaceae; goosefoot family (includes spinach and beets)
Allioniaceae; family Allioniaceae; family Nyctaginaceae; four-o'clock family; Nyctaginaceae (a family of flowering plants of the order Caryophyllales)
Cactaceae; cactus family; family Cactaceae (constituting the order Opuntiales)
family Phytolaccaceae; Phytolaccaceae; pokeweed family (chiefly tropical herbaceous plants (including shrubs and trees) with racemose flowers: genera Phytolacca, Agdestis, Ercilla, Rivina, Trichostigma)
family Portulacaceae; Portulacaceae; purslane family (family of usually succulent herbs; cosmopolitan in distribution especially in Americas)
Holonyms ("caryophylloid dicot family" is a member of...):
Caryophyllidae; subclass Caryophyllidae (a group of families of mostly flowers having basal or central placentation and trinucleate pollen (binucleate pollen is commoner in flowering plants); contains 14 families including: Caryophyllaceae (carnations and pinks); Aizoaceae; Amaranthaceae; Batidaceae; Chenopodiaceae; Cactaceae (order Opuntiales); Nyctaginaceae; Phytolaccaceae; corresponds approximately to order Caryophyllales; sometimes classified as a superorder)
