dicot

Bean plant type

A dicot is a flowering plant whose seeds have two embryonic leaves (cotyledons).

Most familiar garden plants, hardwood trees, and broadleaf species are dicots: roses, oaks, beans, tomatoes.

The term contrasts with monocot, which has seeds with a single cotyledon.

Dicots typically have branching leaf veins and flower parts in multiples of four or five.

venation

netted

Caught or cleared profit

branching · midrib · vein · lamina · blade · margin · petiole · stipule

botany

angiosperm

Plant producing flowers, fruits

taxonomy · phylogeny · herbaceous · woody · perennial · biennial · annual · legume · stomata · chlorophyll

flowering

blossom

Flower on fruit tree

  • bloomFlower or flourishing state
  • petalsColored bloom segments
  • stamenPollen-producing flower organ

pistil · sepal · inflorescence · pollination · pollinator · nectar · honeybee · fertilization · fruiting · floriculture

leaves

simple

Free of complexity

lobed · dissected · opposite · alternate · whorled · broadleaf · deciduous · evergreen

Opposites
botanical classification (flowering plant types)

dicotmonocot

One-cotyledon flowering plant

monocotyledon · grass · lily · palm · orchid

Family

dicots, dicotyledon, dicotyledonous, dicotyledons

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Rated G