a. [f. as prec. + -ARY: corresp. to mod.F. cotylédonaire.]

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  1.  Bot. Of the nature of a seed-leaf.

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1854.  Bushnan, in Circ. Sc., II. 27/2. These seed-lobes, or cotyledonary bodies.

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1882.  Vines, Sachs’ Bot., 501. The Embryo [in Cycadeæ] enclosed in the large endosperm possesses two opposite unequal cotyledonary leaves.

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  2.  Phys. Characterized by the presence of cotyledons (see COTYLEDON 1).

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1888.  Rolleston & Jackson, Anim. Life, 367. The non-deciduate placenta is either diffuse when the villi are scattered…; or cotyledonary, when they are aggregated into patches corresponding with maternal patches (true Ruminantia).

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