noun
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
• Syn: ↑Magnoliidae, ↑subclass Magnoliidae
• Hypernyms: ↑class
• Member Holonyms: ↑Dicotyledones, ↑class Dicotyledones, ↑Dicotyledonae, ↑class Dicotyledonae, ↑Magnoliopsida, ↑class Magnoliopsida
• Member Meronyms: ↑magnoliid dicot family, ↑magnoliid dicot genus, ↑Ranales, ↑order Ranales, ↑Ranunculales, ↑order Ranunculales
Useful english dictionary. 2012.