Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Botany A leaf of the embryo of a seed plant, which upon germination either remains in the seed or emerges, enlarges, and becomes green.
- noun Anatomy One of the lobules constituting the uterine side of the mammalian placenta, consisting mainly of a rounded mass of villi.
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- noun botany The
leaf of theembryo of aseed -bearing plant ; aftergermination it becomes the first leaves of theseedling .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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"Eugene," Edith said, in the manner of a classic advertising campaign, "as long as you're up -- will you look up the definition of the word cotyledon?"
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Called a cotyledon, this mutated umbilical cord feeds the baby plant.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Called a cotyledon, this mutated umbilical cord feeds the baby plant.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Called a cotyledon, this mutated umbilical cord feeds the baby plant.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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It is called a cotyledon if there is but one portion, cotyledons if two.
The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Ellen Eddy Shaw
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At b, the further swelling and opening out, as it were, of what, in botanical language, is known as the cotyledon stage of development, will be seen;
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"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 George Sturt 1895
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The ruin of the cathedral was covered with the cotyledon umbilicus, or navel wort; and the beautiful wild menyanthes trefoliatum, or trefoil, grew in abundance near the same place.
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Basil is basil flavored and smells like basil from the cotyledon on.
Wall Street and biology doyle 2008
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The cotyledon plunges into the ground, and can then travel up to sixty-five feet away.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
duckbill commented on the word cotyledon
The orifice of the menstrual veins and arteries.
". . . the cotyledons of her matrix were presently loosed, through which the child sprang up and leaped. . ."
April 23, 2011