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dicotyledon

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di⋅cot⋅y⋅le⋅don

  [dahy-kot-l-eed-n, dahy-kot-l-]
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–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:
1720–30; < NL Dicotyledones a pre-Linnean grouping of such plants. See di- 1 , cotyledon
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di·cot·y·le·don   (dī'kŏt'l-ēd'n)   
n.  A flowering plant with two embryonic seed leaves or cotyledons that usually appear at germination.
di'cot'y·le'don·ous (-l-ēd'n-əs) adj.
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dicotyledon

any member of the flowering plants, or angiosperms, that has a pair of leaves, or cotyledons, in the embryo of the seed. There are about 175,000 known species of dicots. Most common garden plants, shrubs and trees, and broad-leafed flowering plants such as magnolias, roses, geraniums, and hollyhocks are dicots.

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