dilleniid dicot family

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dilleniid dicot family - family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs dicot family, magnoliopsid family - family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination caper family, Capparidaceae, family Capparidaceae - a dilleniid dicot family of the order Rhoeadales that includes: genera Capparis, Cleome, Crateva, and Polanisia Brassicaceae, Cruciferae, family Brassicaceae, family Cruciferae, mustard family - a large family of plants with four-petaled flowers; includes mustards, cabbages, broccoli, turnips, cresses, and their many relatives family Papaveraceae, Papaveraceae, poppy family - herbs or shrubs having milky and often colored juices and capsular fruits family Fumariaceae, Fumariaceae, fumitory family - erect or climbing herbs of the northern hemisphere and southern Africa: bleeding heart; Dutchman's breeches; fumitory; squirrel corn family Loasaceae, loasa family, Loasaceae - family of bristly hairy sometimes climbing plants; America and Africa and southern Arabia family Malvaceae, mallow family, Malvaceae - herbs and shrubs and some trees: mallows; cotton; okra Bombacaceae, family Bombacaceae - tropical trees with large dry or fleshy fruit containing usually woolly seeds Elaeocarpaceae, elaeocarpus family, family Elaeocarpaceae - genus of trees and shrubs widely distributed in warm regions some yielding useful timber; in some classifications included in the family Santalaceae family Sterculiaceae, sterculia family, Sterculiaceae - a large family of plants of order Malvales family Tiliaceae, linden family, Tiliaceae - chiefly trees and shrubs of tropical and temperate regions of especially southeastern Asia and Brazil; genera Tilia, Corchorus, Entelea, Grewia, Sparmannia Ericaceae, family Ericaceae, heath family - heathers Clethraceae, family Clethraceae, white-alder family - coextensive with the genus Clethra diapensia family, Diapensiaceae, family Diapensiaceae - north temperate low evergreen plants; in some classifications placed in its own order Diapensiales Epacridaceae, epacris family, family Epacridaceae - Australasian shrubs or small trees family Lennoaceae, Lennoaceae - family of fleshy parasitic herbs lacking green foliage and having heads of small flowers; California and Mexico family Pyrolaceae, Pyrolaceae, wintergreen family - evergreen herbs of temperate regions: genera Pyrola, Chimaphila, Moneses, Orthilia family Monotropaceae, Monotropaceae - used in some classification for saprophytic herbs sometimes included in the family Pyrolaceae: genera Monotropa and Sarcodes Dilleniidae, subclass Dilleniidae - 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 begonia family, Begoniaceae, family Begoniaceae - monoecious succulent herbs or shrubs of tropical and warm regions especially America Dilleniaceae, family Dilleniaceae - chiefly tropical shrubs and trees and climbers having leathery leaves or flattened leaflike stems: genera Dillenia and Hibbertia Clusiaceae, family Clusiaceae, family Guttiferae, Guttiferae, St John's wort family - widely distributed family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines that produce oils and resins and some usable timber family Hypericaceae, Hypericaceae - used in some classification systems for plants usually included among the Guttiferae Actinidiaceae, family Actinidiaceae - tropical trees or shrubs or woody vines canella family, Canellaceae, family Canellaceae - one genus: aromatic tropical trees of eastern Africa and Florida to West Indies Caricaceae, family Caricaceae, papaya family - trees native to tropical America and Africa with milky juice and large palmately lobed leaves