class magnoliopsida

Questions about class magnoliopsida

What does class magnoliopsida mean?

class magnoliopsida means "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".

What is another word for class magnoliopsida?

Close synonyms include Dicotyledones, class Dicotyledones, Dicotyledonae, class Dicotyledonae, Magnoliopsida. 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 class magnoliopsida a common word?

class magnoliopsida 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.