English > Magnoliidae: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | 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; contains 36 families including Magnoliaceae and Ranunculaceae; sometimes classified as a superorder. |
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| Synonyms | subclass Magnoliidae, ranalian complex |
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| Member of | Dicotyledones, class Dicotyledones, Dicotyledonae, class Dicotyledonae, Magnoliopsida, class Magnoliopsida | Comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with paired cotyledons and net-veined leaves |
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| Members | Ranales, order Ranales, Ranunculales, order Ranunculales | herbs, shrubs and trees |
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| magnoliid dicot family | family of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms |
| magnoliid dicot genus | genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms |
| Broader | class | (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders |
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| Spanish | magnoliáceas |
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| Catalan | ranalian complex |
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