English > dilleniid dicot family: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs. |
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| 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 |
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| Narrower | Actinidiaceae, family Actinidiaceae | Tropical trees or shrubs or woody vines |
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| Begoniaceae, family Begoniaceae, begonia family | monoecious succulent herbs or shrubs of tropical and warm regions especially America |
| Bombacaceae, family Bombacaceae | Tropical trees with large dry or fleshy fruit containing usually woolly seeds |
| Canellaceae, family Canellaceae, canella family | One genus |
| Capparidaceae, family Capparidaceae, caper family | A dilleniid dicot family of the order Rhoeadales that includes |
| 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 |
| Clethraceae, family Clethraceae, white-alder family | coextensive with the genus Clethra |
| Cruciferae, family Cruciferae, Brassicaceae, family Brassicaceae, mustard family | A large family of plants with four-petaled flowers |
| Diapensiaceae, family Diapensiaceae, diapensia family | north temperate low evergreen plants |
| Dilleniaceae, family Dilleniaceae | chiefly tropical shrubs and trees and climbers having leathery leaves or flattened leaflike stems |
| Dipterocarpaceae, family Dipterocarpaceae | chiefly tropical Asian trees with two-winged fruits |
| Elaeocarpaceae, family Elaeocarpaceae, elaeocarpus family | genus of trees and shrubs widely distributed in warm regions some yielding useful timber |
| Epacridaceae, family Epacridaceae, epacris family | Australasian shrubs or small trees |
| Ericaceae, family Ericaceae, heath family | heathers |
| Flacourtiaceae, family Flacourtiaceae, flacourtia family | chiefly tropical trees and shrubs |
| Fouquieriaceae, family Fouquieriaceae | small family of spiny shrubs or trees of southwestern United States |
| Fumariaceae, family Fumariaceae, fumitory family | Erect or climbing herbs of the northern hemisphere and southern Africa |
| Guttiferae, family Guttiferae, Clusiaceae, family Clusiaceae, 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 |
| Hypericaceae, family Hypericaceae | Used in some classification systems for plants usually included among the Guttiferae |
| Lennoaceae, family Lennoaceae | family of fleshy parasitic herbs lacking green foliage and having heads of small flowers |
| Loasaceae, family Loasaceae, loasa family | family of bristly hairy sometimes climbing plants |
| Loranthaceae, family Loranthaceae, mistletoe family | In some classification includes Viscaceae |
| Malvaceae, family Malvaceae, mallow family | herbs and shrubs and some trees |
| Monotropaceae, family Monotropaceae | Used in some classification for saprophytic herbs sometimes included in the family Pyrolaceae |
| Ochnaceae, family Ochnaceae, ochna family | family of tropical evergreen trees and shrubs with thick shining parallel-veined leaves |
| Papaveraceae, family Papaveraceae, poppy family | herbs or shrubs having milky and often colored juices and capsular fruits |
| Passifloraceae, family Passifloraceae, passionflower family | Tropical woody tendril-climbing vines |
| Pyrolaceae, family Pyrolaceae, wintergreen family | evergreen herbs of temperate regions |
| Resedaceae, family Resedaceae, mignonette family | mainly Mediterranean herbs |
| Santalaceae, family Santalaceae, sandalwood family | chiefly tropical herbs or shrubs or trees bearing nuts or one-seeded fruit |
| Sterculiaceae, family Sterculiaceae, sterculia family | A large family of plants of order Malvales |
| Tamaricaceae, family Tamaricaceae, tamarisk family | family of desert shrubs and trees (mostly halophytes and xerophytes) |
| Theaceae, family Theaceae, tea family | A family of trees and shrubs of the order Parietales |
| Tiliaceae, family Tiliaceae, linden family | chiefly trees and shrubs of tropical and temperate regions / regions of especially southeastern Asia and Brazil |
| Violaceae, family Violaceae, violet family | A family of order Parietales including the genera Viola, Hybanthus, Hymenanthera, Melicytus |
| Viscaceae, family Viscaceae, mistletoe family | In some classifications considered a subfamily of Loranthaceae |
| 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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