noun
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
• Syn: ↑subclass Dilleniidae
• Hypernyms: ↑class
• Member Holonyms: ↑Dicotyledones, ↑class Dicotyledones, ↑Dicotyledonae, ↑class Dicotyledonae, ↑Magnoliopsida, ↑class Magnoliopsida
• Member Meronyms:
↑dilleniid dicot family, ↑dilleniid dicot genus, ↑Rhoeadales, ↑order Rhoeadales, ↑Papaverales, ↑order Papaverales, ↑Malvales, ↑order Malvales, ↑Ericales, ↑order Ericales, ↑Parietales, ↑order Parietales, ↑Hypericales, ↑order Hypericales, ↑Guttiferales, ↑order Guttiferales, ↑Santalales, ↑order Santalales
Useful english dictionary. 2012.