monocot

• “Wave Hill's 28-acre grounds encompass a conservatory, a flower garden, an herb garden, a wild garden, a water garden and "something called a monocot garden," Strazzera said.”

  The Seattle Times

• “Wave Hill's 28-acre grounds encompass a conservatory, a flower garden, an herb garden, a wild garden, a water garden and "something called a monocot garden," Ms. Strazzera said.”

  NYT > Home Page

• “The water poppy monocot, meaning that it has only one cotyledon inside its seeds.”

  CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]

• “Another curious aspect of the corn plant, other than the nerd fact that it is a monocot, is its ability to produce aerial roots at the first above-ground node.”

  The Washington Post: Groundwork: When Sweet Corn Tasted Like Corn

• “From the point of view of the earth, three cycles of Mercury describe the shape of most monocot seeds.”

  An Exploration into an Integral Approach to Knowledge

• “Geophyte diversity is remarkably high; the lowland and montane fynbos ecoregions support about 1,500 species, most belonging to the petaloid monocot families, notably Iridaceae, Orchidaceae, Hyacinthaceae, and Amaryllidaceae.”

  Montane fynbos and renosterveld

• “The first line of the book exemplifies the flowery writing throughout: “Doomed, a painted skimmer cuts (cuts a hundred bias lines per minute) air rich with midges: curves past blue dashers (out for midges, too); breaks through pickerel weeds; stops short on a nodding monocot: a rush for rest.””

  2007 December 16 « One-Minute Book Reviews

• “In larger seeds the difference between a monocot and a dicot is obvious.”

  5. How plants live and grow

• “(Gramineae) which accounts for the major portion of the monocot”

  Chapter 7

• “All monocot plants first emerge from the soil with one initial leaf called a seed leaf or cotyledon.”

  Chapter 7

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