English > asterid dicot family: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs. |
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| Member of | Asteridae, subclass Asteridae | A group of mostly sympetalous herbs and some trees and shrubs mostly with 2 fused carpels |
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| Narrower | Acanthaceae, family Acanthaceae, acanthus family | widely distributed herbs and shrubs and trees |
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| Ambrosiaceae, family Ambrosiaceae | In some classifications considered a separate family comprising a subgroup of the Compositae including the ragweeds |
| Avicenniaceae, family Avicenniaceae | Used in some classifications |
| Bignoniaceae, family Bignoniaceae | Trees or shrubs or woody vines or herbs having fruit resembling gourds or capsules |
| Caprifoliaceae, family Caprifoliaceae, honeysuckle family | shrubs and small trees and woody vines |
| Compositae, family Compositae, Asteraceae, family Asteraceae, aster family | plants with heads composed of many florets |
| Dipsacaceae, family Dipsacaceae | chiefly southern European herbs with flowers usually in dense cymose heads |
| Gesneriaceae, family Gesneriaceae, gesneria family | large family of tropical herbs or shrubs or lianas |
| Hydrophyllaceae, family Hydrophyllaceae, waterleaf family | perennial woodland herbs |
| Labiatae, family Labiatae, Lamiaceae, family Lamiaceae, mint family | A large family of aromatic herbs and shrubs having flowers resembling the lips of a mouth and four-lobed ovaries yielding four one-seeded nutlets and including mint |
| Polemoniaceae, family Polemoniaceae, phlox family | A widely distributed family of chiefly herbaceous plants of the order Polemoniales |
| Rubiaceae, family Rubiaceae, madder family | widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs |
| Scrophulariaceae, family Scrophulariaceae, figwort family, foxglove family | A family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales |
| Solanaceae, family Solanaceae, potato family | large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous |
| Valerianaceae, family Valerianaceae, valerian family | genus of mostly herbs having a characteristic fetid odor |
| Verbenaceae, family Verbenaceae, verbena family, vervain family | family of New World tropical and subtropical herbs and shrubs and trees |
| Broader | dicot family, magnoliopsid family | family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
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