To dehydrate is to lose a lot of water. Plants can become dehydrated in dry, hot weather. Desert organisms have adapted to life with little water. Examples of detrivores include bacteria and fungi . Dichotomous venation is a pattern of leaf veins in which the veins branch in two over and over again.
Ferns are dichotomousy veined.
Taproots are often present. Beans and peas are examples of dicots. It usually means that an organism has two different types, for example, males and females of some species look different, and are said to be sexually dimorphic. A dioecious plant has the male and female flowers on different plants. For example, date trees are dioecious.