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cotyledon

/ˌkɑt.əˈliː.dən/

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What does cotyledon mean?

noun

  1. Each of the patches of villi on the foetal chorion in the placenta of ruminants and some other mammals.
  2. The leaf of the embryo of a seed-bearing plant; after germination it becomes the first leaves of the seedling.

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/ˌkɑt.əˈliː.dən/

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(By using Piccard's method I have succeeded in showing that the gravitational sensitiveness of the cotyledon of Sorghum is certainly much greater than the sensitiveness of the hypocotyl--if indeed any such sensitiveness exists.
A. C. (Albert Charles) SewardDarwin and Modern ScienceProject Gutenberg ebook #1909