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from The Century Dictionary.
- A cohort (alliance of Lindley) of dicotyledonous polypetalous plants belonging to the first series, Thalamiflorœ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A natural order of plants including the families
Malvaceae ,Bombacaceae ,Elaeocarpaceae ,Sterculiaceae , andTiliaceae .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Malvaceae; Bombacaceae; Elaeocarpaceae; Sterculiaceae; Tiliaceae
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