Noun: Dicotyledonae
- 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
- Dicotyledones, class Dicotyledones, class Dicotyledonae, Magnoliopsida, class Magnoliopsida
Type of: class
Part of: Angiospermae, Anthophyta, class Angiospermae, division Anthophyta, division Magnoliophyta, Magnoliophyta
Encyclopedia: Dicotyledonae