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(short for dicotyledon) [Gr. di: two + kotyledon: a hollow space] • This term, not used in this book, formerly referred to all angiosperms other than the monocots. (See eudicot, monocot.)
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A flowering plant (angiosperm) that possesses two cotyledons during embryonic development. Usually has taproots, flower parts in multiples of fours and fives, and branching veins in leaves.
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A flowering plant that has 2 cotyledons in the embryo. The bean seed is a dicot. It has two special structures called cotyledons which are part of the embryo.
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A plant with two cotyledons or seed leaves; a broadleaf plant with net-like venation.
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(dicotyledon) a flowering plant with two seed leaves; flowering plants characterized by having embryos with two cotyledons, net-veined leaves, flower parts in fours or fives, and the presence of cambium
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a subdivision of flowering plants whose members possess two embryonic seed leaves, or cotyledons; ex: bean plant
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In flowering plants, plants that produces two seed leaves.
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An angiosperm with two cotyledons
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A plant with two cotyledons or seed leaves. Dicots are also called broadleaves and usually have leaf veins in a netlike pattern and a tap root.
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The group of plants in which germinating seedlings have two cotyledon leaves, for example, beans.
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flowering plant with two cotyledons; the stem grows by deposit on its outside
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Short for "Dicotyledon" , this means a plant with complex veined leaves
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One of the two large groups of flowering plants distinguished by the presence of of two seed leaves or cotyledons
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A plant of the angiosperm group having two cotyledons.
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(dicotyledon) - A plant that has two seed leaves or cotyledons. Generally includes broadleaf plants.
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the larger of the two classes of angiosperms characterized by having two cotyledons, floral parts that occur in multiples of four or five, and net-veined leaves. Examples of dicots are maple trees and tomato plants.
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A plant that has two seed leaves or " cotyledons". See Seed Starting: Germination
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A dicot (Class Magnoliopsida) is a type of flowering plant (an angiosperm) whose seed has two embryonic leaves ( cotyledons). The leaf veins are usually net-like (and not parallel). Taproots are often present. Beans and peas are examples of dicots.
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