magnoliid

American  

[mag-noh-lee-uhd] / mægˈnoʊ li əd /

noun

magnoliids plural

1. any member of the Magnoliidae clade of flowering plants, whose members include magnolias, cinnamon, nutmeg, bay laurel, and avocado.

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magnoliid Scientific  

/ măg-nō′lē-ĭd /

1. Any of a heterogenous group of angiosperms that are neither eudicotyledons nor monocotyledons, and are considered to retain the characteristics of more primitive angiosperms, such as flowers with fewer or less differentiated parts. Magnoliids have embryos with two cotyledons (like the eudicotyledons) and usually long, broad leaves and large flowers. Magnolias, laurel, and the cinnamon tree are magnoliids.

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Inflected Forms

noun

• magnoliids
  plural

Example Sentences

Both views draw support from cladistics studies, and the so-called woody magnoliid hypothesis—which proposes that the early ancestors of angiosperms were shrubs—also offers molecular biological evidence.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015