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Legumes vs Dicotyledon - What's the difference?

legumes | dicotyledon |

As nouns the difference between legumes and dicotyledon

is that legumes is plural of legume while dicotyledon is a plant whose seedling has two cotyledons.

legumes

English

Noun

(head)

    • 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