Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, having only one seed-lobe or seminal leaf.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having only one cotyledon, seed lobe, or seminal leaf.
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- adjective botany Of or pertaining to a flowering plant having a seed with one embryonic
leaf (a singlecotyledon ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of a flowering plant) having a single cotyledon in the seed as in grasses and lilies
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Examples
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Hence the class of endogens are sometimes called monocotyledonous plants, while that of exogens are called dicotyledonous.
Aboriginal America 1860
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Stately trees of many kinds, with smooth and highly coloured barks, are loaded by parasitical monocotyledonous plants; large and elegant ferns are numerous, and arborescent grasses entwine the trees into one entangled mass to the height of thirty or forty feet above the ground.
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Stately trees of many kinds, with smooth and highly coloured barks, are loaded by parasitical monocotyledonous plants; large and elegant ferns are numerous, and arborescent grasses entwine the trees into one entangled mass to the height of thirty or forty feet above the ground.
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She was a generously built woman with a monocotyledonous bosom, who was about ninety-nine per cent flesh and one per cent spirit.
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Date: before 12th century any of various monocotyledonous often tufted marsh plants (as of the genera Juncus and Scirpus of the family Juncaceae, the rush family) with cylindrical often hollow stems which are used in bottoming chairs and plaiting mats
The Annotated "Sugar Magnolia" Robert Hunter and Robert Weir 1970
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Other monocotyledonous groups with simplicity of floral elements, such as the typhaceæ, contain large quantities of starch; in the case of
Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 Various
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This leads one to the idea that in monocotyledonous plants, the fruit is very generally of limited powers of variation; witness Orchideae, Gramineae, Smilacineae, etc. this idea deserves to be followed out as much as possible.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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Are the sheaths found on certain radicles strictly confined to monocotyledonous plants.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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Florence oil is the virgin oil expressed from the ripe fruit soon after being gathered; it is imported in flasks surrounded by a kind of network formed by the leaves of a monocotyledonous plant, and packed in half chests; it is that used at table under the name of salad oil.
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All these plants are grouped under three main divisions: apetalous, monocotyledonous, and dicotyledonous; and these main divisions are further subdivided.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 Various
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