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from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, applied to the back of one of the cotyledons: said of the radicle of the embryo in the seed of certain cruciferous plants, and of the plants themselves. In modern usage such plants are said to have the cotyledons incumbent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having the radicle of the embryo lying against the back of one of the cotyledons; incumbent.
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- adjective botany Having the
radicle of theembryo lying against the back of one of thecotyledons ;incumbent .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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