(Botany)a flowering plant with an embryo that bears two cotyledons (seed leaves). Dicotyledons constitute the larger of the two great divisions of flowering plants, and typically have broad stalked leaves with net-like veins (e.g. daisies, hawthorns, oaks) (植)双子叶植物。 比较 monocotyledon
Class Dicotyledoneae (or -donae, -dones; sometimes Magnoliopsida), subdivision Angiospermae 双子叶植物纲,被子植物亚门
派生 dicotyledonous adjective 语源
early 18th cent.: from modern Latin dicotyledones (plural), from di- 'two' + cotyledon (see cotyledon)