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monocotyledonous
[ mon-uh-kot-l-eed-n-uhs ]
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Word History and Origins
Origin of monocotyledonous1
First recorded in 1760–70; monocotyledon + -ous
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Example Sentences
A farmer does not divide plants, like a botanist, into dicotyledonous and monocotyledonous, but into useful plants and weeds.
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Scirpus, sir′pus, n. a genus of monocotyledonous plants, including the bulrushes.
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In some monocotyledonous embryos, as in Orchidaceae, the embryo is a cellular mass showing no parts.
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Monocotyledonous (meaning with single cotyledon) is the name of the one-cotyledoned sort of embryo.
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Thus, in modern botany, the Dicotyledonous plants compose one class, the Monocotyledonous plants another (36-40).
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