Definition of Dicotyls

1. dicotyl [n] - See also: dicotyl

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dicotyls

dicophane
dicopper
dicoria
dicoronene
dicoronylene
dicoronylenes
dicot
dicot family
dicot genus
dicots
dicotyl
dicotyledenous
dicotyledonous
dicotyledons
dicotyls (current term)
dicoumarin
dicoumarins
dicoumarol
dicoumarols
dicrocoeliasis
dicrocoeliidae
dicrocoeliosis
dicrocoelium
dicrotal
dicrotic
dicrotic notch
dicrotic pulse
dicrotic wave
dicrotism

Literary usage of Dicotyls

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader by Joseph Le Conte (1903)
"These earliest known dicotyls (Figs. 778-782), though of very generalized ... But if the highest plants, the dicotyls, are abundant, so are also the ..."

2. A Practical Course in Botany: With Especial Reference to Its Bearings on by Eliza Frances Andrews (1911)
"... the internal structure of pine stems is like that of dicotyls. (See Plate 5.) C. WOODY STEMMED dicotyls MATERIAL. — Elm, basswood, mulberry ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americanaedited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1903)
"... and bast, enclosing a large medulla, and enveloped by a thick cortex, this being in the main the arrangement in all the gymnosperms and the dicotyls. ..."

4. Journal of Applied Microscopy by Bausch & Lomb Optical Company (1900)
"Club, 27 : among the lower dicotyls on account 365-372. pi. 23,1900. of the naked flower and form of the carpel. Engler. has recently separated it from the ..."

5. Laboratory Exercises in Botany by Edson Sewell Bastin (1894)
"The plan will be, first, to take up a nearly typical flower from the dicotyls, and after its structure has been comprehended to study some others that show ..."

6. The Living Cycads by Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1919)
"It is true that dicotyls with one cotyledon and ... In typical dicotyls the wood is in a zone surrounding the pith, ..."

7. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"Often there is but one kind of floral leaves which in the dicotyls is arbitrarily ... In the dicotyls the corolla may be made up of separate petals (figs. ..."

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