English
Etymology
From di- (“two”) + cotyledon (“embryonic leaf”).
Pronunciation
Noun
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beans, buttercups, oaks and sunflowers
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dicotyledon (plural dicotyledons)
- (botany) A plant whose seedling has two cotyledons.
Dicotyledons and monocotyledons together make up the flowering plants, the angiosperms.
- (botany, historical) Any plant in what used to be the Dicotyledones.
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in botany
- Armenian: երկշաքիլավորներ (hy) (erkšakʻilavorner)
- Azerbaijani: ikiləpəli
- Belarusian: двухдо́льныя (dvuxdólʹnyja)
- Bengali: দ্বিবীজপত্রী (bn) (dibijpotri)
- Bulgarian: двусемеделни (dvusemedelni)
- Catalan: dicotiledoni m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 双子叶植物 (zh) (shuāng zǐ yè zhí wù)
- Czech: dvouděložné
- Danish: tokimbladede
- Dutch: tweezaadlobbige (nl) m
- 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)
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