A weed is growing on the border of your playing ground. How will you recognise it to be a dicot or monocot?

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A weed can be characterised as a monocot or dicot on the basis of differences in leaf venation, type of root system and type of flowers. A monocot weed has parallel ventation, fibrous root system and trimerous flowers. Dicot weed, on the other hand, has reticulate venation, tap root system and pentamerous or tetramerous flowers.

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