dicotyledonous
/dahy-kot-l-eed-n-uhs, dahy-kot-l-/US // daɪˌkɒt lˈid n əs, ˌdaɪ kɒt l- //
双子叶植物,双子叶植物的,双子叶的,双子叶植物群
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : belonging or pertaining to the Dicotyledoneae; having two cotyledons.
Examples
A farmer does not divide plants, like a botanist, into dicotyledonous and monocotyledonous, but into useful plants and weeds.
Plants in which there are two cotyledons produced in the embryo are dicotyledonous.
"Many of the dicotyledonous plants look alike at the beginning," he said, with a little drawl on the big word.
Thus, in modern botany, the Dicotyledonous plants compose one class, the Monocotyledonous plants another (36-40).
On the left we observe a group of trees, which resemble the dicotyledonous plants of our forests.
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