dicotyledones

Other forms of dicotyledones

plural

dicotyledoneses·

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 dicotyledones

What does dicotyledones mean?

dicotyledones 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 dicotyledones?

dicotyledones has 5 syllables: dico-ty-le-do-nes. The stress falls on "le".

What is another word for dicotyledones?

Close synonyms include class Dicotyledones, Dicotyledonae, 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 dicotyledones a common word?

dicotyledones 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.