dicotyledonous

American  

[dahy-kot-l-eed-n-uhs, dahy-kot-l-] / daɪˌkɒt lˈid n əs, ˌdaɪ kɒt l- /

adjective

1. belonging or pertaining to the Dicotyledoneae; having two cotyledons.

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Etymology

Origin of dicotyledonous

First recorded in 1785–95; dicotyledon + -ous

Example Sentences

Neocomian beds contain a true dicotyledonous leaf with Dammara and Araucaria.

From Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras by Wallace, Alfred Russel

When Phlebopteris Phillipsii was first detected in the Oolite of Yorkshire, Lindley and Hatton, regarding it as dicotyledonous, originated their term Dictyophillum as a general one for all such leaves.

From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Miller, Hugh

Pith, pith, n. the marrow or soft substance in the centre of the stems of dicotyledonous plants: force or energy: importance: condensed substance: quintessence.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

The wood, upon a microscopical examination, is shown to be that of some dicotyledonous tree of a very loose and light texture.

From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Fewkes, Jesse Walter

But among the dicotyledonous vegetables there is none that merit the attention of naturalists as the creeping ligneous plants known as so much lianes.

From Movement of the International Literary Exchanges, between France and North America from January 1845 to May, 1846 With Instructions for Collecting, Preparing, and Forwarding Objects of Natural History Written by The Professors Administrators of The Museum Of Natural History At Paris. And Instructions Relative to Anthropology and Zoology by Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Isidore