dicotyledon

Other forms of dicotyledon

plural

dicotyledons·

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 dicotyledon

What does dicotyledon mean?

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

How many syllables are in dicotyledon?

dicotyledon has 5 syllables: di-co-ty-le-don. The stress falls on "ty".

What is another word for dicotyledon?

Close synonyms include dicot, 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 dicotyledon a common word?

dicotyledon 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.