dilleniid dicot family

Definitions of dilleniid dicot family

1. noun

   family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs
   types:

   Capparidaceae, caper family, 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

   Papaveraceae, family Papaveraceae, poppy family

   herbs or shrubs having milky and often colored juices and capsular fruits

   Fumariaceae, family Fumariaceae, fumitory family

   erect or climbing herbs of the northern hemisphere and southern Africa: bleeding heart; Dutchman's breeches; fumitory; squirrel corn

   Loasaceae, family Loasaceae, loasa family

   family of bristly hairy sometimes climbing plants; America and Africa and southern Arabia

   Malvaceae, family Malvaceae, mallow family

   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

   Sterculiaceae, family Sterculiaceae, sterculia family

   a large family of plants of order Malvales

   Tiliaceae, family Tiliaceae, linden family

   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

   Diapensiaceae, diapensia family, 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

   Lennoaceae, family Lennoaceae

   family of fleshy parasitic herbs lacking green foliage and having heads of small flowers; California and Mexico

   Pyrolaceae, family Pyrolaceae, wintergreen family

   evergreen herbs of temperate regions: genera Pyrola, Chimaphila, Moneses, Orthilia

   Monotropaceae, family Monotropaceae

   used in some classification for saprophytic herbs sometimes included in the family Pyrolaceae: genera Monotropa and Sarcodes

   Begoniaceae, begonia family, 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, Guttiferae, St John's wort family, family Clusiaceae, family Guttiferae

   widely distributed family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines that produce oils and resins and some usable timber

   Hypericaceae, family Hypericaceae

   used in some classification systems for plants usually included among the Guttiferae

   Actinidiaceae, family Actinidiaceae

   tropical trees or shrubs or woody vines

   Canellaceae, canella family, 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

   Caryocaraceae, family Caryocaraceae

   small genus of tropical South American trees

   Cistaceae, family Cistaceae, rockrose family

   shrubs or woody herbs of temperate regions especially Mediterranean

   Dipterocarpaceae, family Dipterocarpaceae

   chiefly tropical Asian trees with two-winged fruits; yield valuable woods and aromatic oils and resins

   Flacourtiaceae, family Flacourtiaceae, flacourtia family

   chiefly tropical trees and shrubs

   Fouquieriaceae, family Fouquieriaceae

   small family of spiny shrubs or trees of southwestern United States

   Ochnaceae, family Ochnaceae, ochna family

   family of tropical evergreen trees and shrubs with thick shining parallel-veined leaves

   Passifloraceae, family Passifloraceae, passionflower family

   tropical woody tendril-climbing vines

   Resedaceae, family Resedaceae, mignonette family

   mainly Mediterranean herbs: mignonette

   Tamaricaceae, family Tamaricaceae, tamarisk family

   family of desert shrubs and trees (mostly halophytes and xerophytes)

   Violaceae, family Violaceae, violet family

   a family of order Parietales including the genera Viola, Hybanthus, Hymenanthera, Melicytus

   Santalaceae, family Santalaceae, sandalwood family

   chiefly tropical herbs or shrubs or trees bearing nuts or one-seeded fruit

   Loranthaceae, family Loranthaceae, mistletoe family

   in some classification includes Viscaceae: parasitic or hemiparasitic shrublets or shrubs or small trees of tropical and temperate regions; attach to hosts by haustoria

   Viscaceae, family Viscaceae, mistletoe family

   in some classifications considered a subfamily of Loranthaceae

   Theaceae, family Theaceae, tea family

   a family of trees and shrubs of the order Parietales

   type of:

   dicot family, magnoliopsid family

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