An informal or shortened plural form referring to dicotyledonous plants; dicots.
A contracted form of 'dicotyledons,' created for convenience in scientific and casual botanical discourse. Emerged in late botanical literature as a shorthand.
Scientists love abbreviations, so 'dicots' and 'dicotyles' became the cool shorthand that botanists use in the lab instead of saying the whole word repeatedly!
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