Etymology: formed as cotyledonn. + -oidsuffix.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: cotyˈledonoid.
Botany.
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1863 M. J. BerkeleyHandbk. Brit. Mosses Gloss. 311Cotyledonoids, a term applied to the germinating threads of mosses, from a notion that they are analogous to the cotyledons of Phænogams.
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