Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A colloquial reduction, among botanists, of dicotyledon.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) same as dicotyledon.

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  • noun botany A plant whose seedlings have two cotyledons, a dicotyledon.

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  • noun flowering plant with two cotyledons; the stem grows by deposit on its outside

Etymologies

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From an abbreviation of dicotyledon.

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Examples

  • Celery is definitely a dicot and these seeds germinated quite well.

    Greenhouse update scusteister 2008

  • The dicot trees of the forests are a mix of evergreen and deciduous species from distinct biogeographical provenances.

    Beni savanna 2008

  • Many associated dicot canopy species have stilt roots or pneumatophores.

    Tonle Sap-Mekong peat swamp forests 2007

  • In larger seeds the difference between a monocot and a dicot is obvious.

    5. How plants live and grow 1991

  • In dicot roots the xylem is the tissue at the core (Figure 5.3).

    5. How plants live and grow 1991

  • In dicot trees the outer layer of the trunk and branches is called bark, a term that refers to all of the tissue from the cambium and phloem to the outer surface.

    5. How plants live and grow 1991

  • Unlike the monocots, dicot plants first emerge from the soil with two seed leaves.

    Chapter 7 1981

  • The Bluebell is a perennial dicot that is native to North America.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] CelticCreationist 2010

  • Black nightshade has dicot leaves that have a main vein branching into many smaller veins.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • The embryo (new-born plants) from the class of dicot has two cotyledons (seed leaves), and the number of petals are parted in 4 or 5.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

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