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  • noun Plural form of dicotyledon.

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  • To expand the range of uses for these resources, the research group set out to determine the degree to which phosphorylation mechanisms are conserved across two very different plant species: Arabidopsis, from the family of flowering plants known as dicotyledons (dicots), and rice, from the family known as monocotyledons (monocots).

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  • Some 374 species of dicotyledons, including 89 trees, 139 species of monocotyledons and 15 species of orchid have been identified.

    Manas National Park, India 2008

  • Two volumes relating to dicotyledons, are due to be published shortly.

    Kinabalu Park, Malaysia 2008

  • The dicotyledons are represented by more than 175 genera, including the diverse and prominent families mentioned earlier.

    Central Andean wet puna 2007

  • A note on the evolutionary status of aluminum-accumulators among dicotyledons.

    Chapter 8 1996

  • The alkaloid [35] furnishing families belong, with few exceptions, to the dicotyledons.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 Various

  • "Yes, it sounds funny," said father; "but, you see, the birch tree is dicotyledonous, and so are many weeds, and the dicotyledons look so much alike at first."

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  • The radicle of the dodder fixes itself in the earth, and the little stem rises as in other dicotyledons; but soon (for the plantlet could not live long thus) this stem, which is as slender as a thread, seeks support upon some neighboring plant, and produces upon its surfaces of contact one or more little protuberances that shortly afterward adhere firmly to the support and take on the appearance and functions of cupping glasses.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 Various

  • The plane of saponin passes from the liliaceæ and allied groups to the rosales and higher dicotyledons.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 Various

  • The highest apetalous plants contain camphors and oils; the highest of the monocotyledons contain a mucilage and oils; and the highest dicotyledons contain oils and special acids.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 Various

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