dicotyledonous

1. 1.

   (of a flowering plant) having two cotyledons in the seed

   Antonymsmonocotyledonous

   plant

Questions about dicotyledonous

What does dicotyledonous mean?

dicotyledonous means "(of a flowering plant) having two cotyledons in the seed".

How many syllables are in dicotyledonous?

dicotyledonous has 6 syllables: di-co-ty-le-do-nous. The stress falls on "le".

What is the opposite of dicotyledonous?

The recorded antonyms are monocotyledonous.

Is dicotyledonous a common word?

dicotyledonous 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.