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Definition of Cotyledons
1. cotyledon [n] - See also: cotyledon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cotyledons
Literary usage of Cotyledons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden by Missouri Botanical Garden (1879)
"THE NUTRITIVE VALUE OF THE FOOD RESERVE IN cotyledons BM DUGGAR Physiologist to
the Missouri Botanical Garden, in Charge of Graduate Laboratory, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"cotyledons are ' usually entire and sessile. But they occasionally become lobed,
as in the Walnut and the Lime, where there are five lobes ; or petiolate, ..."
3. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Francis Wall Oliver (1902)
"cotyledons. The cotyledons or seed-leaves are borne by the embryonic stem. ...
Sometimes the cotyledons themselves form the storehouse for the food to be ..."
4. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"Nor is this nature much disguised by the fact that they differ greatly in form
in different species, and that the seed- leaves, or developed cotyledons, ..."
5. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel (1905)
"In other cases where we have a suctorial organ the cotyledons act as this, ...
267) in Java, whose cotyledons are usually separated by an internode. <r FIG. ..."
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