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Cotyledon [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. In botany, the perishable lobe or placenta of the seeds of plants. It involves and nourishes the embryo plant, and then perishes. Some seeds have two lobes; others one only, and others none.

2. In anatomy, a little glandular body adhering to the chorion of some animals.

3. A genus of plants, navel-wort, or kidney-wort, of several species.

Cotyledon [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One of the patches of villi found in some forms of placenta.

2. A leaf borne by the caulicle or radicle of an embryo; a seed leaf.

Cotyledonal [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a cotyledon.

Cotyledonary [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having a cotyledon; tufted; as, the cotyledonary placenta of the cow.

Cotyledonous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Pertaining to cotyledons; having a seed-lobe.

Cotyledonous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to a cotyledon or cotyledons; having a seed lobe.