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单词 dicotyledon
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dicotyledon

[ dahy-kot-l-eed-n, dahy-kot-l- ]
/ daɪˌkɒt lˈid n, ˌdaɪ kɒt l- /

noun Botany.

any angiospermous plant of the class (or subclass) Dicotyledoneae, producing seeds with two cotyledons and having an exogenous manner of growth.
Compare monocotyledon.

Origin of dicotyledon

First recorded in 1720–30, dicotyledon is from the New Latin word Dicotyledones a pre-Linnean grouping of such plants. See di-1, cotyledon

Words nearby dicotyledon

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Example sentences from the Web for dicotyledon

  • I will describe as examples the reproduction of a moss, a fern, and a dicotyledon.

    Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XXI., No. 531, March 6, 1886|Various
  • A primrose by the river's brim a dicotyledon was to him, and it was nothing more.

    Platform Monologues|T. G. Tucker

British Dictionary definitions for dicotyledon

dicotyledon
/ (daɪˌkɒtɪˈliːdən, ˌdaɪkɒt-) /

noun

any flowering plant of the class Dicotyledonae, normally having two embryonic seed leaves and leaves with netlike veins. The group includes many herbaceous plants and most families of trees and shrubs
primitive dicotyledon . any living relative of early angiosperms that branched off before the evolution of monocotyledons and eudicotyledons. The group comprises about 5 per cent of the world's plants
Often shortened to: dicot
Compare monocotyledon

Derived forms of dicotyledon

dicotyledonous, adjective
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Scientific definitions for dicotyledon

dicotyledon
[ dī′kŏt′l-ēdn ]
dicot (kŏt′)

An angiosperm that is not a monocotyledon, having two cotyledons in the seed. The term dicotyledon serves as a convenient label for the eudicotyledons, the magnoliids, and a varied group of other angiosperms, but it does not correspond to a single taxonomic group. Compare monocotyledon. See more at eudicotyledon leaf magnoliid.
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