CARYOPHYLLOID DICOT FAMILY

 Dictionary entry overview: What does caryophylloid dicot family mean? 

• CARYOPHYLLOID DICOT FAMILY (noun)
  The noun CARYOPHYLLOID DICOT FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers

  Familiarity information: CARYOPHYLLOID DICOT FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARYOPHYLLOID DICOT FAMILY (noun)

Meaning:

Family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("caryophylloid dicot family" is a kind of...):

dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "caryophylloid dicot family"):

family Portulacaceae; Portulacaceae; purslane family (family of usually succulent herbs; cosmopolitan in distribution especially in Americas)

family Phytolaccaceae; Phytolaccaceae; pokeweed family (chiefly tropical herbaceous plants (including shrubs and trees) with racemose flowers: genera Phytolacca, Agdestis, Ercilla, Rivina, Trichostigma)

Cactaceae; cactus family; family Cactaceae (constituting the order Opuntiales)

Allioniaceae; family Allioniaceae; family Nyctaginaceae; four-o'clock family; Nyctaginaceae (a family of flowering plants of the order Caryophyllales)

Chenopodiaceae; family Chenopodiaceae; goosefoot family (includes spinach and beets)

Batidaceae; family Batidaceae; saltwort family (family coextensive with genus Batis: saltworts)

amaranth family; Amaranthaceae; family Amaranthaceae (cosmopolitan family of herbs and shrubs)

Aizoaceae; carpetweed family; family Aizoaceae; family Tetragoniaceae; Tetragoniaceae (succulent herbs or small shrubs mostly of South Africa but also New Zealand and North America: carpetweeds; fig marigolds)

genus Stellaria; Stellaria (common chickweed; stitchwort)

carnation family; Caryophyllaceae; family Caryophyllaceae; pink family (large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes))

Holonyms ("caryophylloid dicot family" is a member of...):

Caryophyllidae; subclass Caryophyllidae (a group of families of mostly flowers having basal or central placentation and trinucleate pollen (binucleate pollen is commoner in flowering plants); contains 14 families including: Caryophyllaceae (carnations and pinks); Aizoaceae; Amaranthaceae; Batidaceae; Chenopodiaceae; Cactaceae (order Opuntiales); Nyctaginaceae; Phytolaccaceae; corresponds approximately to order Caryophyllales; sometimes classified as a superorder)