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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) a class of plants comprising those seed plants that produce an embryo with two cotyledons and net-veined leaves; divided into six (not always well distinguished) subclasses (or superorders):
Magnoliidae andHamamelidae (considered primitive);Caryophyllidae (an early and distinctive offshoot); and three more or less advanced groups:Dilleniidae ;Rosidae ;Asteridae .
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- noun 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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