asterid dicot family
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1. family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | dicot family, magnoliopsid family, |
| definition | : | family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | aster family, asteraceae, compositae, family asteraceae, family compositae, |
| definition | : | plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | ambrosiaceae, family ambrosiaceae, |
| definition | : | in some classifications considered a separate family comprising a subgroup of the Compositae including the ragweeds (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | family rubiaceae, madder family, rubiaceae, |
| definition | : | widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | caprifoliaceae, family caprifoliaceae, honeysuckle family, |
| definition | : | shrubs and small trees and woody vines (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | dipsacaceae, family dipsacaceae, |
| definition | : | chiefly southern European herbs with flowers usually in dense cymose heads (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | family polemoniaceae, phlox family, polemoniaceae, |
| definition | : | a widely distributed family of chiefly herbaceous plants of the order Polemoniales; often have showy flowers (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | acanthaceae, acanthus family, family acanthaceae, |
| definition | : | widely distributed herbs and shrubs and trees; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | bignoniaceae, family bignoniaceae, |
| definition | : | trees or shrubs or woody vines or herbs having fruit resembling gourds or capsules; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | family gesneriaceae, gesneria family, gesneriaceae, |
| definition | : | large family of tropical herbs or shrubs or lianas; in some classification systems placed in the order Scrophulariales (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | family hydrophyllaceae, hydrophyllaceae, waterleaf family, |
| definition | : | perennial woodland herbs (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | family labiatae, family lamiaceae, labiatae, lamiaceae, mint family, |
| definition | : | 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; thyme; sage; rosemary (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | family scrophulariaceae, figwort family, foxglove family, scrophulariaceae, |
| definition | : | a family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales; includes figwort and snapdragon and foxglove and toadflax and speedwell and mullein; in some classifications placed in the order Scrophulariales (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | family solanaceae, potato family, solanaceae, |
| definition | : | large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandra (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | family verbenaceae, verbena family, verbenaceae, vervain family, |
| definition | : | family of New World tropical and subtropical herbs and shrubs and trees (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | avicenniaceae, family avicenniaceae, |
| definition | : | used in some classifications: coextensive with the genus Avicennia (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | family valerianaceae, valerian family, valerianaceae, |
| definition | : | genus of mostly herbs having a characteristic fetid odor (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | asteridae, subclass asteridae, |
| definition | : | a group of mostly sympetalous herbs and some trees and shrubs mostly with 2 fused carpels; contains 43 families including Campanulales; Solanaceae; Scrophulariaceae; Labiatae; Verbenaceae; Rubiaceae; Compositae; sometimes classified as a superorder (noun.plant) |
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