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In reading Plutarch's life of Mark Antony, there is mentions a Roman army officer whose nickname was "Cotylon"
derived from "cotyle" = cup. This reminded me of botanical term "cotyledon" = the first leaf produced by a germinating seed. I'm a bit surprised that the root is not used in any other word. Do you know of any?
cotyledon
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5ModL < L, name of a plant < Gr kotylcdbn < kotylc, a hollow, cavity6 the first single leaf or one of the first pair of leaves produced by the embryo of a flowering plant, or any of various similar structures found in conifers: see MONOCOTYLEDON, DICOTYLEDON
cot#y[le$don[ous or cot#y[le$don[al
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cotylosaur seems a contender:
NOUN: Any of an extinct order (Cotylosauria) of massive primitive reptiles of the Carboniferous and Permian periods that included the ancestors of all of the reptiles. Also called root reptile, stem reptile.
ETYMOLOGY: Greek kotul, hollow object, socket + Greek sauros, lizard.
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Dear dxb: I couldn't find a picture of a cotylosaur, but the site said it was also called "Captorhynic". I wonder if that meant it had a horn on its nose, which might meat that a cotyle was a cup made from a horn.
P.S. I just remembered that there is a term in obstetrics
for a condition in which the placenta is not a single unit, but has accessory structures called cotyledons, which if retained can cause postpartum problems. I have seen cotyledons, but never complications from them.
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