dicotyledon

Definition of Dicotyledon in English :

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Noun

1. dicot, dicotyledon, exogen, magnoliopsid

flowering plant with two cotyledons; the stem grows by deposit on its outside

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Dicotyledon

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noun

1. Often shortened to: dicot

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

Compare monocotyledon

2.

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

Dicotyledon

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noun

Botany

any of a class (Magnoliopsida) of angiosperms, as oak trees, legumes, and cactuses, with an embryo containing two cotyledons (seed leaves), characterized by net-veined leaves, flower parts in fours or fives, and the presence of cambium

: often clipped to ˈdiˌcot

Dicotyledon

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n.

Any of various flowering plants that are not monocotyledons, having two cotyledons in the seed and usually flower parts in multiples of four or five, leaves with reticulate venation, pollen with three pores, and the capacity for secondary growth. The dicotyledons, which include the eudicotyledons and the magnoliids, are no longer considered to form a single valid taxonomic group.

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