Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In botany, having a single instead of a double perianth: applied to flowers. The missing set is considered to be the inner, or corolla. Compare
achlamydeous and dichlamydeous. SeeMonochlamydeæ .
Wiktionary
- adj. botany Having a single floral envelope, that is, a calyx without a corolla, or, possibly, in rare cases, a corolla without a calyx.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Bot.) Having a single floral envelope, that is, a calyx without a corolla, or, possibly, in rare cases, a corolla without a calyx.
Etymologies
- Ancient Greek (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In what are termed monochlamydeous flowers both calyx and corolla are wanting, as in”
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
“These form the perianth and are in one series, when the flower is termed monochlamydeous, or in two series (dichlamydeous).”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
“Diclinous or monochlamydeous plants owe their imperfect conformation to suppression, and may become structurally complete by a species of peloria.”
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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