| dicot family | (n) family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination, Syn. magnoliopsid family |
| asterid dicot family | (n) family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs |
| caryophylloid dicot family | (n) family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers |
| dilleniid dicot family | (n) family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs |
| hamamelid dicot family | (n) family of mostly woody dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins |
| magnoliid dicot family | (n) family of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms |
| rosid dicot family | (n) a family of dicotyledonous plants |