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    SUBCLASS ASTERIDAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A group of mostly sympetalous herbs and some trees and shrubs mostly with 2 fused carpels; contains 43 families including Campanulales; Solanaceae; Scrophulariaceae; Labiatae; Verbenaceae; Rubiaceae; Compositae; sometimes classified as a superorderplay

    Synonyms:

    Asteridae; subclass Asteridae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("subclass Asteridae" is a kind of...):

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

    Meronyms (members of "subclass Asteridae"):

    asterid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

    asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

    Campanulales; order Campanulales (an order of plants of the subclass Asteridae including: Campanulaceae; Lobeliaceae; Cucurbitaceae; Goodeniaceae; Compositae)

    order Rubiales; Rubiales (an order of dicotyledonous plants of the subclass Asteridae; have opposite leaves and an inferior compound ovary)

    order Polemoniales; Polemoniales (Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales)

    Holonyms ("subclass Asteridae" 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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