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Food and Beverages > Food > Fruit > Seeds > Cotyledon
... > Physiological Phenomena > Diet, Food, and Nutrition > Food > Fruit > Seeds > Cotyledon
Plant Structures > Plant Components, Aerial > Fruit > Seeds > Cotyledon
Plant Structures > Plant Components, Aerial > Plant Shoots > Cotyledon

Preferred term

Cotyledon  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Cotyledons
  • Leaf, Seed
  • Leave, Seed
  • Leaves, Seed
  • Seed Leaf
  • Seed Leave
  • Seed Leaves

Note

  • coordinate with specific plant

Scope note

  • A part of the embryo in a seed plant. The number of cotyledons is an important feature in classifying plants. In seeds without an endosperm, they store food which is used in germination. In some plants, they emerge above the soil surface and become the first photosynthetic leaves. (From Concise Dictionary of Biology, 1990)

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