cotyledonous

Not that I am yet clear, at all, myself; but I do think it's more the botanists 'fault than mine, what' cotyledonous 'structure there may be at the outer base of each successive bud; and still less, how the intervenient length of stem, in the bicots, is related to their power, or law, of branching.

Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

The distinction between dicotyledons and monocotyledons is accurately set forth, though the stress is laid not so much on the cotyledonous character of the seed as on the relation of root and shoot.

The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Various

Most of them are mono-cotyledonous -- with a single seed-lobe, like those of the early world.

The Naturalist on the Thames 1882

MY DEAR FRIEND, -- Dr. Jackson is fast turning me into a vegetable, - homo multi-cotyledonous is the species.

Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter Orville Dewey 1838