Definition of Asterids

1. Noun. (botany) a name used in the APG (1998) and APG II (2003) systems for one of the principal clades accepted in the system. In practice the cause of some confusion as non-botanists tend to confuse it with a botanical name, with a formal rank. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Asterids

1. asterid [n] - See also: asterid

Lexicographical Neighbors of Asterids

astels
astely
astemizole
aster
aster family
asteraceae
astereognosis
asteria
asterias
asteriated
asterid
asterid dicot family
asterid dicot genus
asteridea
asteridian
asterids (current term)
asterion
asteriosaponins
asteriotoxins
asterisc
asterisci
asteriscs
asteriscus
asterisk
asterisked
asterisking
asteriskless
asterisks
asterism
asterismal

Literary usage of Asterids

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1881)
"by Ludwig, who has shown that they correspond closely with the asterids in the essential details of their organisation. Muller's discovery of the madreporic ..."

2. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1892)
"The author concludes his observations by arranging the asterids he has ... He finds nothing in the anatomy of asterids to support Perrier's view that each ..."

3. Manual of geology by Samuel Haughton (1866)
"It is not certain that any Palaeozoic asterids are generically identical with Secondary forms. Of Triassic asterids, there is but one recorded species, ..."

4. The Voyage of the Vega Round Asia and Europe: With a Historical Review of by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1885)
"... asterids of many kinds, &c. Towards the east the sea-bottom rises gradually and then forms a plain lying 30 to 90 metres below the surface of the sea, ..."

5. Evolution by Atrophy in Biology and Sociology by Jean Demoor, Jean Massart, Émile Vandervelde (1899)
"This order comprises star-fish or asterids, sea-urchins, Crinoids and Holothuria or ... In some kinds of asterids—in ..."

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