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单词 dicotyledon
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dicotyledonn.

/ˌdʌɪkɒtɪˈliːdən/
Etymology: < modern Botanical Latin dīcotylēdones (plural), < Greek δι- twice + κοτυληδών cup-shaped hollow or cavity: see cotyledon n.(The term Dicotyledones was employed by Ray, but its practical introduction into botanical classification dates from Jussieu 1779.)
Botany.
A flowering plant having two cotyledons or seed-lobes: the Dicotyledons (in Botanical Latin Dicotyledones) constitute one of the great classes of flowering plants, characterized by an exogenous mode of growth (hence also called exogens, see exogen n.), and usually by having the parts of the flower in fives or fours, and the veins of the leaves reticulated.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > plant having seed > [noun] > monocot, dicot, or polycotyleden
dicotyledon1727
monocotyledon1727
polycotyledon1828
dictyogen1841
monocot1854
homogen1866
dicot1877
monocotyl1877
1703 J. Ray Methodus Plantarum (ed. 2) 1 Floriferas dividemus in Dicotyledones, quarum semina sata binis foliis anomalis, Seminalibus dictis, quæ Cotyledonum usum præstant, è terra exeunt.]
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Dicotyledon (with Botantists), a Term used of Plants, which spring with two Seed Leaves opposite to each other, as the generality of Plants have.
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. Introd. 15 Two great divisions..Monocotyledons and Dicotyledons.
1839 Penny Cycl. XIII. 157 In his ‘Genera Plantarum’ Jussieu divided the vegetable kingdom into classes, subclasses, orders, and genera..hence his classes Acotyledons, Monocotyledons, and Dicotyledons.
1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. ii. v. 564 In the great majority of Dicotyledons the parts of the flower are arranged in whorls..the whorls are usually pentamerous, less often tetramerous.
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