a. [f. as prec. + -OUS.]

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  1.  Characterized by the presence of cotyledons.

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1830.  Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., 280. The cotyledonous extremity becoming thickened in germination.

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1882.  Syd. Soc. Lex., Cotyledonous placenta.

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  2.  fig. Embryonic, ‘in the germ.’ (nonce-use.)

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1885.  Mrs. Lynn Linton, Christ. Kirkland, II. 42. What cotyledonous Beethovens … broke the strings of that Broadwood ‘grand.’

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