asteridae

1. 1.

   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 superorder

   Synonymssubclass Asteridae

   Broaderclass

   Part ofDicotyledones

Other forms of asteridae

plural

asteridaes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about asteridae

What does asteridae mean?

asteridae means "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 superorder".

How many syllables are in asteridae?

asteridae has 4 syllables: a-ste-ri-dae. The stress falls on "ste".

What is another word for asteridae?

Close synonyms include subclass Asteridae. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is asteridae a common word?

asteridae is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.