MONOCOTYLEDONOUS Definition & Meaning

monocotyledonous

[ mon-uh-kot-l-eed-n-uhs ]

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adjective

belonging or pertaining to the monocotyledons.

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Origin of monocotyledonous¹

First recorded in 1760–70; monocotyledon + -ous

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Embryo monocotyledonous.—Low herbs, with thick opposite petioled unequal leaves, axillary or terminal peduncles, and showy flowers in solitary heads.

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The flower has in rare cases a perianth of six scale-like leaves arranged in two whorls, and thus conforming to the common monocotyledonous type of flower.

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Scirpus, sir′pus, n. a genus of monocotyledonous plants, including the bulrushes.

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GLADIOLUS, a genus of monocotyledonous plants, belonging to the natural order Iridaceae.

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To other monocotyledonous families the resemblances are merely of adaptive or vegetative characters.

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