Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant destitute of a cotyledonous embryo.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A plant which has no cotyledons, as the dodder and all flowerless plants.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany A
plant that has nocotyledons , as thedodder and all flowerless plants.
Etymologies
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From a- (“not”) + cotyledon (“cup-shaped”).
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Examples
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One of these determinables is number of cotyledons under which fall the determinates acotyledon, monocotyledon, and dicotyledon.
Determinates vs. Determinables Sanford, David H. 2006
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