monocotyledon (redirected from Monocotyledons)

mon·o·cot·y·le·don  (mn-ktl-dn)

n.

Any of various flowering plants, such as grasses, orchids, and lilies, having a single cotyledon in the seed.

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mono·coty·ledon·ous adj.

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monocotyledon [mon-no-kot-ill-leed-on]

Noun

any flowering plant with a single embryonic seed leaf, such as the grasses, lilies, palms, and orchids

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monocotyledon (mn-ktl-dn) or monocot  (mn-kt) Any of a class of angiosperm plants having a single cotyledon in the seed. Monocotyledons have leaves with parallel veins, flower parts in multiples of three, and fibrous root systems. Their primary vascular bundles are scattered throughout the stem, not arranged in a ring as in eudicotyledons. Grasses, palms, lilies, irises, and orchids are monocotyledons. See more at leaf. Compare eudicotyledon. monocotyledonous adjective

monocotyledon cross section of a corn seed

Thesaurus

Noun

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monocotyledon - a monocotyledonous flowering plant; the stem grows by deposits on its inside endogen, liliopsid, monocot angiosperm, flowering plant - plants having seeds in a closed ovary class Liliopsida, class Monocotyledonae, class Monocotyledones, Liliopsida, Monocotyledonae, Monocotyledones - comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with a single cotyledon and parallel-veined leaves: includes grasses and lilies and palms and orchids; divided into four subclasses or superorders: Alismatidae; Arecidae; Commelinidae; and Liliidae