acotyledonous, a. Bot.
(əkɒtɪˈliːdənəs)
[f. prec. + -ous.]
Having no distinct cotyledons or seed-lobes, attribute of one of Jussieu's three great divisions of the vegetable kingdom.
| 1819 Pantologia I. s.v., It is a doubt however, whether any plant be strictly acotyledonous. 1835 Hooker Brit. Flor. 477 Acotyledonous or Cellular Plants: this class corresponds with the 24th Cryptogamia in the Linnæan System. 1880 Gray Bot. Text-Bk. 394 Acotyledonous, without cotyledons..Mostly applied to plants which have no proper seed nor embryo, and therefore no cotyledon. |