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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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| ``The dicot grasses are coming through on the trail,'' she said about the two-leaf blades of grass. CF] from samples collected by the dicot (Al, Si, Cl, S, K Ca, Mn, Fe, Zn, Br, Pb, Sr, Cu, and Rb). Inserting foreign genes into plants is not new; scientists have been engineering broad-leaved, dicot plants such as tobacco and tomatoes for more than a decade. |
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