Crossword-Solution: COTYLEDONS
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| Clue | Answers |
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| SEEDLING leaves, first | 1 answer |
| seed leaves | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with COTYLEDONS (5)
The natural system, as finally propounded by them, is based on the number of cotyledons, the structure of the seed, and the insertion of the stamens.
The first organs of its upward growth are known by the name of cotyledons; they have also been called seed-leaves.
Their chief point of variance, however, from the cotyledons is that they are flat, delicate, and formed like real leaves generally.
Thus the main divisions of flowering plants are founded on differences in the embryo—on the number and position of the cotyledons, and on the mode of development of the plumule and radicle.
The leaves succeeding the cotyledons being almost clover-like in shape, seems to me feebly analogous to embryonic resemblances in young animals, as, for instance, the young lion being striped.