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- noun Plural form of
dicot .
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Examples
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The pulses belong to the other major division of flowering plants called dicots (Dicotyledonae).
Chapter 7 1981
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In your lawn, selective herbicides kill dicots (which include many common lawn weeds), plants with branching veins in variously shaped leaves.
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In your lawn, selective herbicides kill dicots which include many common lawn weeds, plants with branching veins in variously shaped leaves.
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This connection is only possible in dicots, and is essential if the scion is to receive the water and nutrients necessary for it to survive.
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In dicots the xylem tissues occur in a discrete layer, which in the stem surrounds the pithy center.
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These continuous layers of phloem and cambial tissue make grafting and layering of dicots possible (sections 7.6 and 7.7), whereas with monocots these techniques are not possible.
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In dicots the phloem is a distinct layer separated from the xylem by a thin layer of cambial tissue
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The union between the stock and scion, each from different plants, is formed from the contact of the cambium, a layer between the phloem and xylem in dicots.
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Garden crops that are dicots, for example, carrots, okra, chilis, sweet peppers, and amaranth, have a tap root, a dominant vertical root with other smaller roots growing out from it.
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Peanuts and other pulses are dicots, and emerge in a blunt form, dragging the two seed leaves with them; they tend to have more trouble with clods.
Chapter 8 1981
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