polycotyledon
noun
a plant having more than two cotyledons, as certain gymnosperms.
polycotyledonous
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a word derived from
polycotyledon.
Example Sentences
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A Bean-stalk and the stem of any common shrub or tree represent the second; and to it belong all plants with dicotyledonous or polycotyledonous embryo.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
If Pine-seeds can be planted, the polycotyledonous embryo can also be studied.
From Outlines of Lessons in Botany, Part I; from Seed to Leaf by Jane H. Newell
Section of a Pine-seed, showing its polycotyledonous embryo in the centre of the albumen, moderately magnified.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
And the polycotyledonous is only a variation of the dicotyledonous type,—a difference in the number of leaves in the whorl; for a pair is a whorl reduced to two members.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
