COTYLEDON
\kˌɒtɪlˈiːdən], \kˌɒtɪlˈiːdən], \k_ˌɒ_t_ɪ_l_ˈiː_d_ə_n]\
Definitions of COTYLEDON
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A part of the embryo in a seed plant. The number of cotyledons is an important feature in classifying plants. In seeds without an endosperm, they store food which is used in germination. In some plants, they emerge above the soil surface and become the first photosynthetic leaves. (From Concise Dictionary of Biology, 1990)
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By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A cup-shaped leaf or lobe in certain plants, forming part of the seed, and on which the growing germ is nourished.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The primary or first leaf of an embryonic sporophyte; the definite patches of villi on the placenta of a mammal.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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