subclass of woody or herbaceous flowering plants belonging to the class Magnoliopsida.[1 related articles] Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/m/12
[n] - a group of families or trees and shrubs and herbs having well-developed perianths and apocarpous ovaries and generally regarded as the most primitive extant flowering plants Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=Magnoliidae
subclass Magnoliidaenoun a group of families or trees and shrubs and herbs having well-developed perianths and apocarpous ovaries and generally regarded as the most primitive extant flowering plants; contains 36 families including Magnoliac... Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20974