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 Meaning of SUBCLASS ASTERIDAE
|  WordNet Dictionary |  |  |  |  | Definition: |  | [n]  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 |  |  |  |  | Websites: |  |  |  |  |  |  | Synonyms: |  | Asteridae |  |  |  |  | See Also: |  | asterid dicot family, asterid dicot genus, Campanulales, class, class Dicotyledonae, class Dicotyledones, class Magnoliopsida, Dicotyledonae, Dicotyledones, Magnoliopsida, order Campanulales, order Polemoniales, order Rubiales, Polemoniales, Rubiales |  |     |    |  |