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dicotyledon
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dicotyledon
1. 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
2. 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

dicotyledon [‚dī‚käd·əl′ēd·ən]
(botany)
Any plant of the class Magnoliopsida, all having two cotyledons.


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Expression precoce de la monocotyledonie et raise en place du point vegetatif de la tige chez quelques Monocotyledones, avec quelques remarques sur les types de symetrie des Monocotyledones et de Dicotyledones.
Presence de cellules de type endodermique dans la tige de quelques Dicotyledones.
 
 
 
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