Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1. 
 a group of families of more or less advanced trees and shrubs and herbs having either polypetalous or gamopetalous corollas and often with ovules attached to the walls of the ovary; 
 contains 69 families including Ericaceae and Cruciferae and Malvaceae; 
 sometimes classified as a superorder; 
[syn: Dilleniidae, subclass Dilleniidae]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
subclass Dilleniidae
    n 1: a group of families of more or less advanced trees and
         shrubs and herbs having either polypetalous or gamopetalous
         corollas and often with ovules attached to the walls of the
         ovary; contains 69 families including Ericaceae and
         Cruciferae and Malvaceae; sometimes classified as a
         superorder [syn: Dilleniidae, subclass Dilleniidae]