monocotyledonous
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[edit]From mono- + cotyledon + -ous.
Adjective
[edit]monocotyledonous (not comparable)
- (botany) Of or pertaining to a flowering plant having a seed with one embryonic leaf (a single cotyledon).
- 1890, [Jacques] Élisée Reclus, “The Mascarenhas”, in A. H. Keane, editor, Oceanica (The Earth and Its Inhabitants; 14)[1], New York: D. Appleton and Company, Flora and Fauna:
- Strange to say, the islet of Ronde, about 16 miles north of Mauritius, forms a separate biological kingdom, possessing one peculiar species of cabbage-palm, some lizards, two snakes, and relatively more monocotyledonous plants than any other region in the world.
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[edit]of or pertaining to a flowering plant having a seed with one embryonic leaf (a single cotyledon)
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