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mon·o·cot·y·le·don

(mŏn′ə-kŏt′l-ēd′n) or mon·o·cot (mŏn′ə-kŏt′)

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.

mon′o·cot′y·le′don·ous adj.

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mon•o•cot

(ˈmɒn əˌkɒt)

also mon`o•cot′yl,

monocotyledon.

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monocot - a monocotyledonous flowering plant; the stem grows by deposits on its inside

endogen, liliopsid, monocotyledon

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

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& J.Presl) and their monocot relatives, the terminology to describe these types is not uniform and many terms have been applied to the same branching type (Tomlinson, 1961; Tomlinson, 1971; Fisher, 1973; Fisher & Tomlinson, 1973; Fisher, 1974; Fisher et al., 1989; Mendoza & Franco, 1998; Fisher & Zona, 2006).

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Members of the mastrevirus include species, which infect monocotyledonous (monocot) but it has shifted its mood from monocot to dicotyledonous (dicot) plants.

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In dicot plants manganese deficiencies often are known with small yellow spots on leaves, also manganese deficiency symptoms in monocot plants appears as tape and gray-green spots on base of leaves.