dicot

Other forms of dicot

plural

dicots·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dicot

What does dicot mean?

dicot means "flowering plant with two cotyledons; the stem grows by deposit on its outside".

How many syllables are in dicot?

dicot has 2 syllables: di-cot. The stress falls on "di".

What is another word for dicot?

Close synonyms include dicotyledon, magnoliopsid, exogen. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dicot a common word?

dicot is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.