caryophylloid dicot family

Questions about caryophylloid dicot family

What does caryophylloid dicot family mean?

caryophylloid dicot family means "family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers".

Is caryophylloid dicot family a common word?

caryophylloid dicot family is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.