Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having two leaves or sepals.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having two leaves: said of a calyx formed of two sepals, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having two leaves, as a calyx, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Having two
leaves .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek; compare French diphylle.
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