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Dicotyledon vs Crassulacean - What's the difference?

dicotyledon | crassulacean |

As a noun dicotyledon

is (botany) a plant whose seedling has two cotyledons.

As an adjective crassulacean is

of or pertaining to the family crassulaceae of dicotyledons.

dicotyledon

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (botany) A plant whose seedling has two cotyledons.
    • Dicotyledons and monocotyledons together make up the flowering plants, the angiosperms.
  • (botany, historical) Any plant in what used to be the Dicotyledones .

    • Synonyms

    * dicot * magnoliopsid (in the Cronquist System)

    Derived terms

    * dicotyledonous

    See also

    * ("dicotyledon" on Wikipedia) * monocotyledon * eudicot * APG

    crassulacean

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or pertaining to the family Crassulaceae of dicotyledons.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=May 31, author=Dominique Browning, title=Gardening Books, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=His description of crassulacean acid metabolism, wherein cacti, yuccas, agaves and sedums open their stomata at night when it’s cooler in order to “bind carbon dioxide on special molecules much like we bind oxygen on hemoglobin in our blood” had me on edge for hours. }}