dicotyledonae

Other forms of dicotyledonae

plural

dicotyledonaes·

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 dicotyledonae

What does dicotyledonae mean?

dicotyledonae means "comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with paired cotyledons and net-veined leaves; divided into six (not always well distinguished) subclasses (or superorders): Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae (considered primitive); Caryophyllidae (an early and distinctive offshoot); and three more or less advanced groups: Dilleniidae; Rosidae; Asteridae".

How many syllables are in dicotyledonae?

dicotyledonae has 6 syllables and divides as di-co-ty-le-do-nae under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for dicotyledonae?

Close synonyms include Dicotyledones, class Dicotyledones, class Dicotyledonae, Magnoliopsida, class Magnoliopsida. 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 dicotyledonae a common word?

dicotyledonae 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.