Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various flowering plants, such as grasses, lilies, and palms, having a single cotyledon in the seed, and usually a combination of other characteristics, typically leaves with parallel veins, a lack of secondary growth, and flower parts in multiples of three.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A monocotyledonous plant; an endogen. See
endogen , and cut undercotyledon .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A plant with only one cotyledon, or seed lobe; a member of the Monocotyledonae.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany Any plant belonging to the Monocotyledones (also written Monocotyledonae) or
Liliopsida , a class in theAngiospermae , theflowering plants . This group include thegrasses ,lilies ,orchids andpalms .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a monocotyledonous flowering plant; the stem grows by deposits on its inside
Etymologies
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Examples
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To date three volumes have been published covering ferns and fern allies, orchids and gymnosperms and non-orchid monocotyledon.
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One of these determinables is number of cotyledons under which fall the determinates acotyledon, monocotyledon, and dicotyledon.
Determinates vs. Determinables Sanford, David H. 2006
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The leaves are petiolate, often cordate, with strongly marked reticulate veining (unusual for a monocotyledon), sometimes lobed, occasionally palmately compound.
Chapter 37 1987
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A perennial, herbaceous monocotyledon, rather variable in many characteristics such as colour of foliage, height, size, shape and composition of the rhizomes.
Chapter 26 1987
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Beginning with the cryptogams, the system proceeds from the monocotyledon to the dicotyledon, and closes with the coniferæ.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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In Palæozoic strata the entire want of plants of the most complex organisation is very striking, for not a single dicotyledonous angiosperm has yet been found, and only one undoubted monocotyledon.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909
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Nothing could be more useful than botany-those who could not distinguish between a dicotyledon and a monocotyledon could certainly never rightly grasp the nature of a hedgerow.
Hodge and His Masters Richard Jefferies 1867
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The case described in your last letter of the trimorphic monocotyledon
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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And such is the milky juice in the centre of the cocoa-nut, and part of the kernel of it; the same I suppose of all other monocotyledon seeds, as of the palms, grasses, and lilies.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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