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dicotyledonous
[ dahy-kot-l-eed-n-uhs, dahy-kot-l- ]
adjective
- 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.
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Plants in which there are two cotyledons produced in the embryo are dicotyledonous.
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"Many of the dicotyledonous plants look alike at the beginning," he said, with a little drawl on the big word.
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Thus, in modern botany, the Dicotyledonous plants compose one class, the Monocotyledonous plants another (36-40).
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On the left we observe a group of trees, which resemble the dicotyledonous plants of our forests.
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