dicotyledon

dicotyledon

English

Etymology

From di- (“two”) +‎ cotyledon (“embryonic leaf”).

Noun

Examples
beans, buttercups, oaks and sunflowers

dicotyledon (plural dicotyledons)

1. (botany) A plant whose seedling has two cotyledons.

   Dicotyledons and monocotyledons together make up the flowering plants, the angiosperms.

2. (botany, historical) Any plant in what used to be the Dicotyledones.

Synonyms

• dicot
• magnoliopsid (in the Cronquist System)

Derived terms

• dicotyledonous

Translations

in botany

Armenian: երկշաքիլավորներ (hy) (erkšakʿilavorner) Azerbaijani: ikiləpəli Belarusian: двухдо́льныя (dvuxdólʹnyja) Bengali: দ্বিবীজপত্রী (dẇibījôpôtrī) Bulgarian: двусемеделни (dvusemedelni) Catalan: dicotiledoni m Chinese: Mandarin: 双子叶植物 (zh) (shuāng zǐ yè zhí wù) Czech: dvouděložné Danish: tokimbladede Estonian: kaheidulehelised Faroese: tvínælingur m Finnish: kaksisirkkainen French: dicotylédone (fr) f, Dicotylédone f Galician: dicotiledóneo (gl) m Georgian: ორლებნიანნი (orlebnianni) German: Zweikeimblättrigen Greek: δικοτυλήδονα (el) n pl (dikotylídona) Hindi: द्विबीजपत्री (dvibījpatrī) Hungarian: kétszikűek (hu) Icelandic: tvíkímblöðungar Japanese: 双子葉植物 (ja) (そうしようしょくぶつ, sōshiyō shokubutsu) Korean: 쌍떡잎식물 (ssangtteogipsingmul), 쌍자엽식물 (ssangjayeopsingmul) Latvian: divdīgļlapji Lithuanian: dviskilčiai Norwegian: Bokmål: tofrøbladede Nynorsk: tofrøbladingar Polish: dwuliścienne Portuguese: dicotiledónea f (Portugal), dicotiledônea f (Brazil) Quechua: iskay phutuy raphiyuq Romanian: dicotiledonată (ro) f Russian: двудо́льное (ru) n (dvudólʹnoje) Serbo-Croatian: dvosupnice (sh) Spanish: dicotiledón (es) m Swedish: tvåhjärtbladiga Tagalog: duhambindahon, duhambin Tamil: இருவித்திலையி (iruvittilaiyi) Telugu: ద్విదళబీజము (te) (dvidaḷabījamu) Turkish: çift çenekli, dikotiledon Ukrainian: дводольні (dvodolʹni) Vietnamese: thực vật hai lá mầm (vi)

See also

• monocotyledon (monocot)
• eudicot
• APG

Further reading

• dicotyledon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia