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Definition of Dicotyledons
1. dicotyledon [n] - See also: dicotyledon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dicotyledons
Literary usage of Dicotyledons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Morphology of Angiosperms: (Morphology of Spermatophytes. Part II) by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1903)
"dicotyledons Any evidence as to the comparative antiquity of Monocotyledons and
dicotyledons is much to be desired, but as yet the historical evidence is ..."
2. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1913)
"Although we naturally do not haVe any of the ancestral dicotyledons at the present
time, the genera Casuarina, Almus and Carpinus probably show as primitive ..."
3. A University Text-book of Botany by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1907)
"dicotyledons. — While the lower Monocotyledons are mostly herbaceous plants, this
is not true of the primitive dicotyledons, many of which are shrubs and ..."
4. General Botany for Universities and Colleges by Hiram Delos Densmore (1920)
"CHAPTER XVII ANGIOSPERMS dicotyledons SPOROPHYTES The sporophytes of the angiosperms
include the common herbaceous and woody-stemmed plants, ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"albuminous dicotyledons the cotyledons act as the absorbents of the reserve-food
of the seed and are commonly brought above ground ..."
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