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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
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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