dicotyledon

English

Etymology

From di- (“two”) ‎ cotyledon (“embryonic leaf”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːdən

Noun

Examples
beans, buttercups, oaks and sunflowers

dicotyledon (plural dicotyledons)

1. (botany) A plant whose seedling has two cotyledons.

   Dicotyledons and monocotyledons together make up the flowering plants, the angiosperms.

2. (botany, historical) Any plant in what used to be the Dicotyledones.

Synonyms

• dicot
• magnoliopsid (in the Cronquist System)

Derived terms

• antidicotyledon
• dicotyledonous
• Palaeodicotyledons

 

Translations

in botany

• Armenian: երկշաքիլավորներ (hy) (erkšakʻilavorner)
• Azerbaijani: ikiləpəli
• Belarusian: двухдо́льныя (dvuxdólʹnyja)
• Bengali: দ্বিবীজপত্রী (bn) (dibijpotri)
• Bulgarian: двусемеделни (dvusemedelni)
• Catalan: dicotiledoni m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 双子叶植物 (zh) (shuāng zǐ yè zhí wù)

• Czech: dvouděložné
• Danish: tokimbladede
• Dutch: tweezaadlobbige (nl) m
• Estonian: kaheidulehelised
• Faroese: tvínælingur m
• Finnish: kaksisirkkainen
• French: dicotylédone (fr) f, Dicotylédone f
• Galician: dicotiledóneo (gl) m
• Georgian: ორლებნიანნი (orlebnianni)
• German: Zweikeimblättrigen
• Greek: δικοτυλήδονα (el) n pl (dikotylídona)
• Hindi: द्विबीजपत्री (dvibījpatrī)
• Hungarian: kétszikűek (hu)
• Icelandic: tvíkímblöðungar
• Japanese: 双子葉植物 (ja) (そうしようしょくぶつ, sōshiyō shokubutsu)
• Korean: 쌍떡잎식물 (ssangtteogipsingmul), 쌍자엽식물 (ssangjayeopsingmul)
• Latvian: divdīgļlapji
• Lithuanian: dviskilčiai
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tofrøbladede

  Nynorsk: tofrøbladingar

• Polish: dwuliścienne
• Portuguese: dicotiledónea f (Portugal), dicotiledônea f (Brazil)
• Quechua: iskay phutuy raphiyuq
• Romanian: dicotiledonată (ro) f
• Russian: двудо́льное (ru) n (dvudólʹnoje)
• Serbo-Croatian: dvosupnice (sh)
• Spanish: dicotiledón (es) m
• Swedish: tvåhjärtbladiga
• Tagalog: duhambindahon, duhambin
• Tamil: இருவித்திலையி (iruvittilaiyi)
• Telugu: ద్విదళబీజము (te) (dvidaḷabījamu)
• Turkish: çift çenekli, dikotiledon
• Ukrainian: дводольні (dvodolʹni)
• Vietnamese: thực vật hai lá mầm (vi)

See also

• monocotyledon (monocot)
• eudicot
• APG

Further reading

• dicotyledon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia