English noun: ranalian complex |
1. | ranalian complex (plant) a group of families of trees and shrubs and herbs having well-developed perianths and apocarpous ovaries and generally regarded as the most primitive extant flowering plants; contains 36 families including Magnoliaceae and Ranunculaceae; sometimes classified as a superorder |
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| Synonyms | Magnoliidae, subclass Magnoliidae |
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| Broader (hypernym) | class |
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| Member holonym | magnoliid dicot family, magnoliid dicot genus, order Ranales, order Ranunculales, Ranales, Ranunculales |
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| Member meronym | class Dicotyledonae, class Dicotyledones, class Magnoliopsida, Dicotyledonae, Dicotyledones, Magnoliopsida |
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