different between eudicotyledon vs forb

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eudicotyledon (plural eudicotyledons)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (phorb?, “food”), from ????? (phérb?, “to feed”).

forb (plural forbs)

(chiefly ecology) Any non-woody flowering plant that is not a graminoid (a grass, sedge, or rush).
- 2002, Dale F. Lott, American Bison: A Natural History, page 122,
  So younger is better and the part nearest the roots is better, but what makes life possible for the pronghorn is a supply of forbs—small broadleaf plants growing among the grasses.
- 2004, A. Kirilov, P. Todorova Development of forage areas and forage resources in Bulgaria during the period of transition, A. Lüscher, et al. (editors), Land Use Systems in Grassland Dominated Regions: Proceedings of the 20th General Meeting of the European Grassland Federation, Grassland Science in Europe, Volume 9, page 859,
  Buchgraber (1995) recommends 50-70% of grasses, 10-30% of legumes and also 10-30% of forbs on meadows, while Kessler (1994) recommends the same proportion of grasses, 10-20% of legumes and 20-40% of forbs on natural meadows.

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