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Definition of Dicotyledones
1. Noun. Comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with paired cotyledons and net-veined leaves; divided into six (not always well distinguished) subclasses (or superorders): Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae (considered primitive); Caryophyllidae (an early and distinctive offshoot); and three more or less advanced groups: Dilleniidae; Rosidae; Asteridae.
Generic synonyms: Class
Member holonyms: Liliopsid Family, Monocot Family, Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family, Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus, Dicot, Dicotyledon, Exogen, Magnoliopsid, Magnoliidae, Ranalian Complex, Subclass Magnoliidae, Myricales, Order Myricales, Aristolochiales, Order Aristolochiales, Caryophyllidae, Subclass Caryophyllidae, Asteridae, Subclass Asteridae, Order Primulales, Primulales, Rosidae, Subclass Rosidae, Order Proteales, Proteales, Casuarinales, Order Casuarinales, Diapensiales, Order Diapensiales, Gentianales, Order Gentianales, Oleales, Order Oleales, Hamamelidae, Subclass Hamamelidae, Juglandales, Order Juglandales, Dilleniidae, Subclass Dilleniidae, Order Urticales, Urticales, Order Plantaginales, Plantaginales, Order Polygonales, Polygonales, Order Salicales, Salicales, Order Sapindales, Sapindales, Ebenales, Order Ebenales, Order Sarraceniales, Sarraceniales, Order Scrophulariales, Scrophulariales, Order Rhamnales, Rhamnales, Order Piperales, Piperales
Group relationships: Angiospermae, Anthophyta, Class Angiospermae, Division Anthophyta, Division Magnoliophyta, Magnoliophyta
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dicotyledones
Literary usage of Dicotyledones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel (1905)
"In Dicotyledones analogous cases are known. We have one represented in Fig.
184, II, which shows a species of Oxalis. Ill THE ROOT-SYSTEM The seedling ..."
2. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"Class IL—Dicotyledones. Flowering Plants whose flowers typically have their parts
arranged in whorls of four or five, embryos with two cotyledons, ..."
3. A Student's Text-book of Botany by Sydney Howard Vines (1896)
"CLASS X.—Dicotyledones. The ripe seed (Fig. 295) may be albuminous, containing
a mass of endosperm and a relatively small embryo, as in the Umbel lifers? ..."
4. A Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger (1898)
"... indicate on the other hand a relationship with the Orchids. SUB-CLASS II
Dicotyledones Flowers generally constructed after the PENTAMEROUS, ..."
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