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Cotyledonary :: Cotyledonary (a.) Having a cotyledon; tufted; as, the cotyledonary placenta of the cow..

Monocotyledon :: Monocotyledon (n.) A plant with only one cotyledon, or seed lobe..

Dictyogen :: Dictyogen (n.) A plant with net-veined leaves, and monocotyledonous embryos, belonging to the class Dictyogenae, proposed by Lindley for the orders Dioscoreaceae, Smilaceae, Trilliaceae, etc..

Compositae :: Compositae (n. pl.) A large family of dicotyledonous plants, having their flowers arranged in dense heads of many small florets and their anthers united in a tube. The daisy, dandelion, and asters, are examples..

Polycotyledon :: Polycotyledon (n.) A plant that has many, or more than two, cotyledons in the seed..

Monocotyl :: Monocotyl (n.) Any monocotyledonous plant.

Exoptile :: Exoptile (n.) A name given by Lestiboudois to dicotyledons; -- so called because the plumule is naked.

Dicotyledonous :: Dicotyledonous (a.) Having two cotyledons or seed lobes; as, a dicotyledonous plant..

Acotyledon :: Acotyledon (n.) A plant which has no cotyledons, as the dodder and all flowerless plants..

Pseudo-monocotyledonous :: Pseudo-monocotyledonous (a.) Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut..

Monocotyledonous :: Monocotyledonous (a.) Having only one cotyledon, seed lobe, or seminal leaf..

Leaf :: Leaf (n.) A special organ of vegetation in the form of a lateral outgrowth from the stem, whether appearing as a part of the foliage, or as a cotyledon, a scale, a bract, a spine, or a tendril..

Notorhizal :: Notorhizal (a.) Having the radicle of the embryo lying against the back of one of the cotyledons; incumbent.

Incumbent :: Incumbent (a.) Leaning or resting; -- said of anthers when lying on the inner side of the filament, or of cotyledons when the radicle lies against the back of one of them..

Monocotyle :: Monocotyle (a.) Monocotyledonous.

Polycotyledonary :: Polycotyledonary (a.) Having the villi of the placenta collected into definite patches, or cotyledons..

Pith :: Pith (n.) The soft spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees, especially those of the dicotyledonous or exogenous classes. It consists of cellular tissue..

Endorhizous :: Endorhizous (a.) Having the radicle of the embryo sheathed by the cotyledon, through which the embryo bursts in germination, as in many monocotyledonous plants..

Welwitschia :: Welwitschia (n.) An African plant (Welwitschia mirabilis) belonging to the order Gnetaceae. It consists of a short, woody, topshaped stem, and never more than two leaves, which are the cotyledons enormously developed, and at length split into diverging segments..

Callyciflorous :: Callyciflorous (a.) Having the petals and stamens adnate to the calyx; -- applied to a subclass of dicotyledonous plants in the system of the French botanist Candolle.

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