dicotyledon

NOUN
  1. flowering plant with two cotyledons; the stem grows by deposit on its outside
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How To Use dicotyledon In A Sentence

  • All these plants are grouped under three main divisions: apetalous, monocotyledonous, and dicotyledonous; and these main divisions are further subdivided. Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887
  • In albuminous Dicotyledons the cotyledons act as the absorbents of the reserve-food of the seed and are commonly brought above ground (_epigeal_), either withdrawn from the seed-coat or carrying it upon them, and then they serve as the first green organs of the plant. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
  • This type of leaf formation can be applied to monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous plants.
  • Within the leaf sheath a certain amount of development can be expected: in contrast to dicotyledonous plants, chloroplast division and development can occur in the absence of light in barley.
  • One of these determinables is number of cotyledons under which fall the determinates acotyledon, monocotyledon, and dicotyledon. Determinates vs. Determinables
  • Besides this constitutive system, iron reductases have been described in dicotyledons and non-grass monocotyledons that reduce iron prior to uptake.
  • In the leaf axils of most dicotyledonous trees well-developed buds are present.
  • Jussieu classifies plants on the basis of cotyledons, and divides all plants into acotyledons, monocotyledons, and dicotyledons.
  • cotyledon" and "dicotyledon" -- I should not have been surprised; but they blundered over the ordinary English, and had next to no sense of the meaning of punctuation. Change in the Village
  • However, it should be kept in mind that young leaves of dicotyledons are more heterogenous as to cell age, than sections of a monocotyledon leaf.
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