dicot

[ dahy-kot ]

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noun

, Botany.

a dicotyledon.

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Origin of dicot¹

By shortening

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By focusing on dicots, a plant variety with two stems like Arabidopsis, and monocots, which have one stem like maize, the biologists were able to provide results for the two main plant types.

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Diconal dicotyledon

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