Meaning

1 senses
  1. Any plant whose seedlings typically have one cotyledon (seed leaf) (in contrast to the two cotyledons typical of dicots), thereby belonging to the taxonomic monocots, formerly variously known as Monocotyledones, Monocotyledonae, or Liliopsida, a class in the angiosperms (Angiospermae), the flowering plants.

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    однодольныеodnodolʹnyje

    однодольніodnodolʹni

More definitions
  • a monocotyledonous flowering plant; the stem grows by deposits on its inside

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Plants are divided into two orders: monocotyledons and dicotyledons.

Translations

7 languages
Українська
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Plant belonging to Monocotyledones or Liliopsida:
Русский
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Plant belonging to Monocotyledones or Liliopsida:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
Plant belonging to Monocotyledones or Liliopsida:

Forms

plural: monocotyledons
Singularmonocotyledon
Pluralmonocotyledons

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Synonyms

3 synonyms
plant with single seed leaf:liliopsidmonocot
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

See also

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