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CARYOPHYLLIDAE

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

Caryophyllidae; subclass Caryophyllidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Caryophyllidae" is a kind of...):

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

Meronyms (members of "Caryophyllidae"):

caryophylloid dicot family (family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

Caryophyllales; Chenopodiales; order-Chenopodiales; order Caryophyllales (corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae)

Opuntiales; order Opuntiales (coextensive with the family Cactaceae: cactuses)

Holonyms ("Caryophyllidae" is a member of...):

class Dicotyledonae; class Dicotyledones; class Magnoliopsida; Dicotyledonae; Dicotyledones; Magnoliopsida (comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with paired cotyledons and net-veined leaves; divided into six (not always well distinguished) subclasses (or superorders): Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae (considered primitive); Caryophyllidae (an early and distinctive offshoot); and three more or less advanced groups: Dilleniidae; Rosidae; Asteridae)

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