Definition of Monocotyledons

1. Noun. (plural of monocotyledon) ¹

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Definition of Monocotyledons

1. monocotyledon [n] - See also: monocotyledon

Lexicographical Neighbors of Monocotyledons

monoclonal protein
monoclonals
monocomponent
monocondyla
monocoordinated
monocoque
monocoques
monocot family
monocot genus
monocots
monocotyl
monocotyle
monocotyledons (current term)
monocotyls
monocracies
monocracy
monocranius
monocrat
monocratic
monocratically
monocrats
monocrotaline
monocrotic
monocrotic pulse
monocrotism
monocrotophos
monocrystal

Literary usage of Monocotyledons

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1904)
"Many features characteristic of mature monocotyledons can be explained as distinct ... (ii) The stem of monocotyledons shows many concentric circles of ..."

2. A University Text-book of Botany by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1902)
"To judge from a study of the living forms, it is likely that the earliest members of the class, especially among the monocotyledons, were plants of delicate ..."

3. A University Text-book of Botany by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1907)
"To judge from a study of the living forms, it is likely that the earliest members of the class, especially among the monocotyledons, were plants of delicate ..."

4. Morphology of Angiosperms: (Morphology of Spermatophytes. Part II) by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1903)
"The characters that separate monocotyledons and Dicotyledons are cumulative ... In the embryo of monocotyledons the cotyledon is terminal and the stem tip ..."

5. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1898)
"The following Communications were made to the Society: (1) Notes on the Geological History of monocotyledons. By AC SEWARD, MA In discussing the relative ..."

6. Botany, with Agricultural Applications by John Nathan Martin (1920)
"monocotyledons Among monocotyledons about 25000 species are recognized, which are distributed among 42 families. They are less than one-fourth as numerous ..."

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