ALL meanings of dicotyledon
di·cot·y·le·don
D d - noun dicotyledon any flowering plant of the class Dicotyledonae, normally having two embryonic seed leaves and leaves with netlike veins. The group includes many herbaceous plants and most families of trees and shrubs 3
- noun dicotyledon primitive dicotyledon. any living relative of early angiosperms that branched off before the evolution of monocotyledons and eudicotyledons. The group comprises about 5 per cent of the world's plants 3
- noun dicotyledon any of a class (Magnoliopsida) of angiosperms, as oak trees, legumes, and cactuses, with an embryo containing two cotyledons (seed leaves), characterized by net-veined leaves, flower parts in fours or fives, and the presence of cambium 3
- noun dicotyledon any angiospermous plant of the class (or subclass) Dicotyledoneae, producing seeds with two cotyledons and having an exogenous manner of growth. 1
- noun dicotyledon A flowering plant with an embryo that bears two cotyledons (seed leaves ). Dicotyledons constitute the larger of the two great divisions of flowering plants, and typically have broad, stalked leaves with netlike veins (e.g., daisies, hawthorns, oaks). 1
- noun dicotyledon (botany) A plant whose seedling has two cotyledons. 0
- noun dicotyledon (botany, historical) Any plant in what used to be the Dicotyledones. 0