Editing Cotyledon (section)

==History==
The term ''cotyledon'' was coined by [[Marcello Malpighi]] (1628–1694).{{efn|The Oxford English Dictionary attributes it [[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] (1707–1778) "1751 Linnaeus ''Philos. Bot.'' 54. ''Cotyledon, corpus laterale seminis, bibulum, caducum''"{{sfn|Linnaeus|1751|loc=[https://archive.org/stream/philosophiabotan00linn#page/54/mode/2up p.&nbsp;54]}} and 89,{{sfn|Linnaeus|1751|loc=[https://archive.org/stream/philosophiabotan00linn#page/89/mode/1up p.&nbsp;89]}} by analogy with a similar structure of the same name in the [[Cotyledon (placenta)|placenta]].{{sfn|OED}}}} [[John Ray]] was the first botanist to recognize that some plants have two and others only one, and eventually the first to recognize the immense importance of this fact to [[systematics]], in ''Methodus plantarum'' (1682).<ref name="Vines 1913">{{Citation |last=Vines, Sydney Howard |title=Makers of British botany |pages=8–43 |year=1913 |editor-last=Oliver, Francis Wall |editor-link=Francis Wall Oliver |chapter=Robert Morison 1620—1683 and John Ray 1627—1705 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |author-link=Sydney Howard Vines}}</ref><ref name="Greene 1983">{{Cite book |last=Greene |first=Edward Lee |author-link=Edward Lee Greene |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AzGsAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1019 |title=Landmarks of botanical history: Part 2 |date=1983 |publisher=Stanford University Press |isbn=978-0-8047-1075-6 |editor-last=Egerton |editor-first=Frank N. |location=Stanford, California |page=1019, note 15}}</ref>

[[Theophrastus]] (3rd or 4th century BC) and [[Albertus Magnus]] (13th century) may also have recognized the distinction between the dicotyledons and monocotyledons.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bioetymology: Origin in Biomedical Terms: cotyledon, monocotyledon (plural usually monocots), dicotyledons(plural usually dicot) |url=http://bioetymology.blogspot.com.br/2011/06/cotyledon-monocotyledon-plural-usually.html |access-date=6 April 2018 |website=bioetymology.blogspot.com.br}}</ref><ref name="Greene 1983" />