Word Finder - cotyledon

definition

Each of the patches of vili on the foetal chorion in the placenta of ruminants and some other mammals.

definition

The leaf of the embryo of a seed-bearing plant; after germination it becomes the first leaves of the seedling.

Cotyledon are among the best known.

The cotyledon and stem grow up vertically through the prothallus, the root turning downwards into the soil.

These bundles cotyledon.

The name is derived from the absence of a seed-leaf or cotyledon.

Flowering plants bear a seed containing an embryo, with usually one or two cotyledons, or seed-leaves; while in flowerless plants there is no seed and therefore no true cotyledon.

P g PY en P however, the cotyledon is not really terminal.

There is some difference of opinion as to which structure or structures represent the cotyledon.

The epiblast has been regarded as representing a second cotyledon, but this is a very doubtful interpretation.

Only one cotyledon attached to the shoot apex is sufficient to ensure continued growth without adding nutrients to the medium.

In certain species of Streptocarpus no functional SAM is present and the plants form only one enlarged cotyledon.

In other cases this growing-point becomes active at once, there being little or no elongation of the hypocotyl and tbe cotyledon or cotyledons remaining in the seed.

In many Monocotyledons the terminal cell forms the cotyledonary portion alone of the shoot of the embryo, its axial part and the root being derived from the adjacent cell; the cotyledon is thus a terminal structure and the apex of the primary stem a lateral one - a condition in marked contrast with that of the Dicotyledons.

But the presence of a second cotyledon in grasses is extremely doubtful, and though there may be ground for reconsidering the position of Nymphaeaceae, their association with the grasses as a distinct class is not warranted by a comparative examination of the members of the two orders.

Cotyledon, a widely distributed genus with about 90 species, is represented in the British Isles by C. Umbilicus, pennywort, or navelwort, which takes its name from the succulent peltate leaves.

In monocotyledonous plants there is only one seed-leaf or cotyledon, and hence the arrangement is at first alternate; and it generally continues so more or less, rarely being verticillate.

In albuminous Monocotyledons the cotyledon itself, probably in consequence of its terminal position, is commonly the agent by which the embryo is thrust out of the seed, and it may function solely as a feeder, its extremity developing as a sucker through which the endosperm is absorbed, or it may become the first green organ, the terminal sucker dropping off with the seed-coat when the endosperm is exhausted.

After fertilization the ovum-nucleus divides and cell-formation proceeds rapidly, especially in the lower part of the ovum, in which the cotyledon and axis of the embryo are differentiated; the long, tangled suspensor of the cycadean embryo is not found in Ginkgo.

It is based upon the fact that the histological differentiation of the epidermis of their root is that generally characteristic of Monocotyledons, whilst they have two cotyledons - the old view of the epiblast as a second cotyledon in Gramineae being adopted.