English > Dicotyledones: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | 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 / distinctive offshoot); and three more or less advanced groups: Dilleniidae; Rosidae; Asteridae. |
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| Synonyms | class Dicotyledones, Dicotyledonae, class Dicotyledonae, Magnoliopsida, class Magnoliopsida |
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| Member of | Angiospermae, class Angiospermae, Magnoliophyta, division Magnoliophyta, Anthophyta, division Anthophyta | Comprising flowering plants that produce seeds enclosed in an ovary |
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| Members | Aristolochiales, order Aristolochiales | Order of plants distinguished by tubular petaloid perianth and inferior ovary |
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| Asteridae, subclass Asteridae | A group of mostly sympetalous herbs and some trees and shrubs mostly with 2 fused carpels |
| 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) |
| Casuarinales, order Casuarinales | Order of chiefly Australian trees and shrubs comprising the casuarinas |
| Diapensiales, order Diapensiales | Used in some classifications |
| 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 |
| Ebenales, order Ebenales | Trees or shrubs of the families ... / families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae |
| Gentianales, order Gentianales | An order of dicotyledonous plants having gamopetalous flowers |
| Hamamelidae, subclass Hamamelidae | A group of chiefly woody plants considered among the most primitive of angiosperms |
| Juglandales, order Juglandales | coextensive with the family Juglandaceae |
| Magnoliidae, subclass Magnoliidae, ranalian complex | A group of families of trees and shrubs and herbs having well-developed perianths and apocarpous ovaries and generally regarded as the most primitive extant flowering plants |
| Myricales, order Myricales | coextensive with the family Myricaceae |
| Oleales, order Oleales | coextensive with the family Oleaceae |
| Piperales, order Piperales | Piperaceae |
| Plantaginales, order Plantaginales | coextensive with the family Plantaginaceae |
| Polygonales, order Polygonales | coextensive with the family Polygonaceae, |
| Primulales, order Primulales | Primulaceae |
| Proteales, order Proteales | coextensive with the family Proteaceae |
| Rhamnales, order Rhamnales | An order of dicotyledonous plants |
| Rosidae, subclass Rosidae | A group of trees and shrubs and herbs mostly with polypetalous flowers |
| Salicales, order Salicales | coextensive with the family Salicaceae |
| Sapindales, order Sapindales | An order of dicotyledonous plants |
| Sarraceniales, order Sarraceniales | plants that are variously modified to serve as insect traps |
| Scrophulariales, order Scrophulariales | Used in some classification systems |
| Urticales, order Urticales | An order of dicotyledonous plants including Moraceae and Urticaceae and Ulmaceae |
| dicot, dicotyledon, magnoliopsid, exogen | flowering plant with two cotyledons |
| dicot family, magnoliopsid family | family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
| dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
| monocot family, liliopsid family | family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed |
| Broader | class | (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders |
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| Spanish | dicotiledóneas, Dicotyledones |
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| Catalan | Magnoliopsida |
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