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DILLENIID DICOT FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("dilleniid 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 "dilleniid dicot family"):
Clusiaceae; family Clusiaceae; family Guttiferae; Guttiferae; St John's wort family (widely distributed family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines that produce oils and resins and some usable timber)
family Hypericaceae; Hypericaceae (used in some classification systems for plants usually included among the Guttiferae)
Actinidiaceae; family Actinidiaceae (tropical trees or shrubs or woody vines)
canella family; Canellaceae; family Canellaceae (one genus: aromatic tropical trees of eastern Africa and Florida to West Indies)
Caricaceae; family Caricaceae; papaya family (trees native to tropical America and Africa with milky juice and large palmately lobed leaves)
Caryocaraceae; family Caryocaraceae (small genus of tropical South American trees)
Cistaceae; family Cistaceae; rockrose family (shrubs or woody herbs of temperate regions especially Mediterranean)
Dipterocarpaceae; family Dipterocarpaceae (chiefly tropical Asian trees with two-winged fruits; yield valuable woods and aromatic oils and resins)
family Flacourtiaceae; flacourtia family; Flacourtiaceae (chiefly tropical trees and shrubs)
family Fouquieriaceae; Fouquieriaceae (small family of spiny shrubs or trees of southwestern United States)
family Ochnaceae; ochna family; Ochnaceae (family of tropical evergreen trees and shrubs with thick shining parallel-veined leaves)
family Passifloraceae; Passifloraceae; passionflower family (tropical woody tendril-climbing vines)
family Resedaceae; mignonette family; Resedaceae (mainly Mediterranean herbs: mignonette)
family Tamaricaceae; Tamaricaceae; tamarisk family (family of desert shrubs and trees (mostly halophytes and xerophytes))
family Violaceae; Violaceae; violet family (a family of order Parietales including the genera Viola, Hybanthus, Hymenanthera, Melicytus)
family Santalaceae; sandalwood family; Santalaceae (chiefly tropical herbs or shrubs or trees bearing nuts or one-seeded fruit)
family Loranthaceae; Loranthaceae; mistletoe family (in some classification includes Viscaceae: parasitic or hemiparasitic shrublets or shrubs or small trees of tropical and temperate regions; attach to hosts by haustoria)
family Viscaceae; mistletoe family; Viscaceae (in some classifications considered a subfamily of Loranthaceae)
family Theaceae; tea family; Theaceae (a family of trees and shrubs of the order Parietales)
caper family; Capparidaceae; family Capparidaceae (a dilleniid dicot family of the order Rhoeadales that includes: genera Capparis, Cleome, Crateva, and Polanisia)
Brassicaceae; Cruciferae; family Brassicaceae; family Cruciferae; mustard family (a large family of plants with four-petaled flowers; includes mustards, cabbages, broccoli, turnips, cresses, and their many relatives)
family Papaveraceae; Papaveraceae; poppy family (herbs or shrubs having milky and often colored juices and capsular fruits)
family Fumariaceae; Fumariaceae; fumitory family (erect or climbing herbs of the northern hemisphere and southern Africa: bleeding heart; Dutchman's breeches; fumitory; squirrel corn)
family Loasaceae; loasa family; Loasaceae (family of bristly hairy sometimes climbing plants; America and Africa and southern Arabia)
family Malvaceae; mallow family; Malvaceae (herbs and shrubs and some trees: mallows; cotton; okra)
Bombacaceae; family Bombacaceae (tropical trees with large dry or fleshy fruit containing usually woolly seeds)
Elaeocarpaceae; elaeocarpus family; family Elaeocarpaceae (genus of trees and shrubs widely distributed in warm regions some yielding useful timber; in some classifications included in the family Santalaceae)
family Sterculiaceae; sterculia family; Sterculiaceae (a large family of plants of order Malvales)
family Tiliaceae; linden family; Tiliaceae (chiefly trees and shrubs of tropical and temperate regions of especially southeastern Asia and Brazil; genera Tilia, Corchorus, Entelea, Grewia, Sparmannia)
Ericaceae; family Ericaceae; heath family (heathers)
Clethraceae; family Clethraceae; white-alder family (coextensive with the genus Clethra)
diapensia family; Diapensiaceae; family Diapensiaceae (north temperate low evergreen plants; in some classifications placed in its own order Diapensiales)
Epacridaceae; epacris family; family Epacridaceae (Australasian shrubs or small trees)
family Lennoaceae; Lennoaceae (family of fleshy parasitic herbs lacking green foliage and having heads of small flowers; California and Mexico)
family Pyrolaceae; Pyrolaceae; wintergreen family (evergreen herbs of temperate regions: genera Pyrola, Chimaphila, Moneses, Orthilia)
family Monotropaceae; Monotropaceae (used in some classification for saprophytic herbs sometimes included in the family Pyrolaceae: genera Monotropa and Sarcodes)
begonia family; Begoniaceae; family Begoniaceae (monoecious succulent herbs or shrubs of tropical and warm regions especially America)
Dilleniaceae; family Dilleniaceae (chiefly tropical shrubs and trees and climbers having leathery leaves or flattened leaflike stems: genera Dillenia and Hibbertia)
Holonyms ("dilleniid dicot family" is a member of...):
Dilleniidae; subclass Dilleniidae (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)
