English > subclass Dilleniidae: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | 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. |
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| Synonym | Dilleniidae |
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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 | Ericales, order Ericales | Ericaceae |
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| Guttiferales, order Guttiferales | Used in some classifications |
| Malvales, order Malvales | Malvaceae |
| Parietales, order Parietales, Hypericales, order Hypericales | A large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae |
| Rhoeadales, order Rhoeadales, Papaverales, order Papaverales | An order of dicotyledonous plants |
| Santalales, order Santalales | Order of plants distinguished by having a one-celled inferior ovary |
| dilleniid dicot family | family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs |
| dilleniid dicot genus | genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs |
| Broader | class | (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders |
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