Dicotyledon
HISTORICAL GROUPING OF FLOWERING PLANTS
Dicots; Dicotyledoneae; Dicot; Dicotyledons; Dicotyledonous; Dictotyledones; Dicotyledones; Dicotyledonae; Dicotyl; Dicotyledonous Plants; Dicot Plants; Dicot plants; Magnoliatae
The dicotyledons, also known as dicots (or, more rarely, dicotyls), are one of the two groups into which all the flowering plants (angiosperms) were formerly divided. The name refers to one of the typical characteristics of the group: namely, that the seed has two embryonic leaves or cotyledons.