rosid dicot family
- noun
- Specialized
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familia de dicotiledóneas rosid
- Botanists studied the unique features of this rosid dicot family to understand its evolution.
Examples
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The legume family is a well-known rosid dicot family that includes beans and peas.
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Many economically important crops belong to a rosid dicot family.
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The rosid dicot family includes many familiar plants.
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Many species in the rosid dicot family have beautiful flowers.
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Many economically important crops belong to a rosid dicot family.
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The legume family is a well-known rosid dicot family that includes beans and peas.
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Many species in the rosid dicot family have beautiful flowers.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward compositional taxonomic label: 'rosid' (a subgroup) modifies 'dicot' and 'family' names the taxonomic rank, so a learner who knows these constituent meanings can infer it refers to families of dicot plants in the rosid group. Although the vocabulary is specialized, the semantic composition follows ordinary modifier+head patterns common across languages, making the meaning derivable from the parts.
Etymology
Rosid dicot family may come from a simple picture: rosid links to the word 'rose' because many related plants are in that group, dicot means 'two seed leaves' that appear when a plant sprouts, and family is a group of similar plants. So, the phrase describes a group of flowering plants that share those features.
