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Webster 1913 Edition


dicotyledon

di-cotˊy-le′don

(dī̍-kŏtˊĭ-lē′dŭn)
,
Noun.
[Pref.
di-
+
cotyledon
.]
(Bot.)
A plant whose seeds divide into two seed lobes, or cotyledons, in germinating.

Syn. – dicot, dicotyl.

Webster 1828 Edition


Dicotyledon

DICOTYLEDON

,
Noun.
[Gr., two; a cavity.] A plant whose seeds divide into two lobes in germinating.

Definition 2024


dicotyledon

dicotyledon

English

Noun

Examples

beans, buttercups, oaks and sunflowers

dicotyledon (plural dicotyledons)

  1. (botany) A plant whose seedling has two cotyledons.
    Dicotyledons and monocotyledons together make up the flowering plants, the angiosperms.
  2. (botany, historical) Any plant in what used to be the Dicotyledones.

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