n. - A plant belonging to one of the greater part of the
vegetable kingdom, and which the plants are characterized by having c
wood bark, and pith, the wood forming a layer between the other two,
and increasing, if at all, by the animal addition of a new layer to the
outside next to the bark. The leaves are commonly netted-veined, and
the number of cotyledons is two, or, very rarely, several in a whorl.
Cf. Endogen.