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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of numerous flowering plants having two cotyledons in the seed, pollen grains with three pores, and usually the capacity for secondary growth, leaves with reticulate venation, and flower parts that are in multiples of four or five.
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- noun botany Alternative form of
eudicot .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[eu–, true (since the eudicotyledons form a clade excluding certain other dicotyledonous groups, such as the magnoliids) + dicotyledon.]
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