Cotyledons

Word COTYLEDONS
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Definitions and meanings of "Cotyledons"

What do we mean by cotyledons?

Each of the patches of vili on the foetal chorion in the placenta of ruminants and some other mammals.

The leaf of the embryo of a seed-bearing plant; after germination it becomes the first leaves of the seedling.

Mean a place in a seed or kernal in which food is stored Urban Dictionary

Means a place in wheres in which food is stored Urban Dictionary

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The word "cotyledons" in example sentences

In cows, and other ruminating animals, the internal surface of the uterus is unequal like hollow cups, which have been called cotyledons; and into these cavities the prominencies of the numerous placentas, with which the fetus of those animals is furnished, are inserted, and strictly adhere; though they may be extracted without effusion of blood. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

The seed inside the drupe has two cotyledons, which is characteristic of dicot plants, and is white and meaty before roasting ❋ Unknown (2009)

The seed inside the drupe has two cotyledons, which is characteristic of ❋ Unknown (2009)

The seed inside the drupe, also referred to as the kernel, has two cotyledons, which is characteristic of [[dicot]] plants. ❋ Unknown (2009)

All animals with no front teeth in the upper jaw, and all those which have them in both jaws and whose uterus has not one great blood-vessel running through it but many close together insteadall these have in the uterus the so-called cotyledons (with which the umbilical cord connects and is closely united; for the vessels which pass through the cord run backwards and forwards between embryo and uterus and split up into smaller vessels all over the uterus; where they terminate, there are found the cotyledons). ❋ Unknown (2002)

Embryonically derived tissues such as cotyledons generally showed more defective vascular patterning than did true leaves. ❋ Margaret Pullen Et Al. (2010)

(called "cotyledons" or seed leaves) increase in length, they gradually withdraw from the seed whose contents they have exhausted, and the young plant enters upon an independent existence. ❋ Douglas Houghton Campbell (N/A)

The first delicate pastel-green leaves on the seedlings of these mighty trees are borne on shoots that spring up through the centre of broad, dark green, disc-like cotyledons. ❋ Unknown (2011)

[cut] [the seed] in half to [reveal] the cotyledon ❋ Reneae (2004)

remove the skin from the [kernal] then [cut it] in half to [reveal] the cotyledon ❋ Renae (2004)

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