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from The Century Dictionary.

  • The largest natural order of plants, including over 750 genera and 10,000 species, distributed all over the globe wherever vegetation is found, and divided equally between the old world and the new.
  • In zoology, a family of compound ascidians, corresponding to the family Botryllidœ; the Synascidiœ (which see).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural (Bot.) A large family of dicotyledonous plants, having their flowers arranged in dense heads of many small florets and their anthers united in a tube. The daisy, dandelion, and asters, are examples.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia

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