1. family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination; [syn: dicot family, magnoliopsid family]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
dicot family
n 1: family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic
leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
[syn: dicot family, magnoliopsid family]