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cotyledon
Cotyledons are the first
leaves
of a germinating embryo. They are mostly constructed simpler than the following
leaves
. In
Monocots
, mostly 1 cotyledon is visible, in
dicots
mostly 2 (cf. also
eophyll
,
subsequent leaf
).
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