How the Greek language influenced English with the word 'cotyledon'

'Cotyledon' is a word borrowed from Greek 'cotyledon'. The word entered the English language some time around 1540.

cotyledon [noun] [1540]

• a lobule of the mammalian placenta
• the first leaf or one of the first pair or whorl of leaves developed by the embryo of a seed plant or of some lower pla...

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Etymology: New Latin, from Greek 'kotylēdōn' cup-shaped hollow, from 'kotylē' cup, anything hollow

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