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dicotyledonous

[ dahy-kot-l-eed-n-uhs, dahy-kot-l- ]

adjective

  1. belonging or pertaining to the Dicotyledoneae; having two cotyledons.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of dicotyledonous1

First recorded in 1785–95; dicotyledon + -ous
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Example Sentences

A farmer does not divide plants, like a botanist, into dicotyledonous and monocotyledonous, but into useful plants and weeds.

Plants in which there are two cotyledons produced in the embryo are dicotyledonous.

"Many of the dicotyledonous plants look alike at the beginning," he said, with a little drawl on the big word.

Thus, in modern botany, the Dicotyledonous plants compose one class, the Monocotyledonous plants another (36-40).

On the left we observe a group of trees, which resemble the dicotyledonous plants of our forests.

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