dicotyledonous

` ` No, dear, not every one; plants are divided into two kinds: those which have two food leaves, like these plants, and those which have only one; these are called dicotyledonous, and the ones which have but one food leaf are monocotyledonous.

Stories to Tell to Children: Fifty-One Stories With Some Suggestions for Telling 1907

"No, dear, not every one; plants are divided into two kinds: those which have two food leaves, like these plants, and those which have only one; these are called dicotyledonous, and the ones which have but one food leaf are monocotyledonous.

Stories to Tell to Children Sara Cone Bryant

"No, dear, not every one; plants are divided into two kinds: those which have two food leaves, like these plants, and those which have only one; these are called dicotyledonous, and the ones which have but one food leaf are monocotyledonous.

Stories to Tell Children Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling Sara Cone Bryant

And even though I hate sweet potatoes (I'm sorry, I do), I appreciate that there exists a sweet potato pie, because it's so charming and so authentically American (and here comes someone in the comment section below to lecture me that sweet potatoes, or yams, or a "dicotyledonous plant belonging to the family Convolvulaceae", or what have you are actually native to Africa).

Brett Ashley McKenzie: We'll Always Have Pie 2008

The ground flora consists of grasses such as Digitaria diagonalis, Loudetia simplex, and Themeda triandra, dicotyledonous herbs, ferns (particularly brackenfern Pellaea spp.) and creepers such as Smilax kraussiana.

Eastern Zimbabwe montane forest-grassland mosaic 2008

The potato is a herbaceous, freely branching dicotyledonous perennial, usually between 30 and 100 cm tall, with alternate, pinnately compound leaves, made up of three or four pairs of oval leaflets and a terminal leaflet.

Chapter 25 1987

From that time onwards, so long as these Gymnosperms were, as was usual, reckoned as dicotyledonous flowering plants, the term Angiosperm was used antithetically by botanical writers, but with varying limitation, as a group-name for other dicotyledonous plants.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various

Such bundles as these are called = closed vascular bundles = to distinguish them from the dicotyledonous type of vascular bundles which are called = open vascular bundles = on account of the existence of the cambium.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

= -- A lessened number of sepals is not a very common occurrence among dicotyledonous plants.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

Now, _Polyporus dryadeus_ and _P. igniarius_ are such fungi; their hyphæ excrete a ferment which completely destroys the starch grains in the cells of the medullary rays of the oak, a tree very apt to be attacked by these two parasites, though _P. igniarius_, at any rate, attacks many other dicotyledonous trees as well.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 Various