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monocotyledon

NOUN
  1. a monocotyledonous flowering plant; the stem grows by deposits on its inside

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  • Nothing could be more useful than botany-those who could not distinguish between a dicotyledon and a monocotyledon could certainly never rightly grasp the nature of a hedgerow. Hodge and His Masters
  • Beginning with the cryptogams, the system proceeds from the monocotyledon to the dicotyledon, and closes with the coniferæ. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
  • All these plants are grouped under three main divisions: apetalous, monocotyledonous, and dicotyledonous; and these main divisions are further subdivided. Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887
  • However, it should be kept in mind that young leaves of dicotyledons are more heterogenous as to cell age, than sections of a monocotyledon leaf.
  • Results presented in this study are in good agreement with those reported for other monocotyledons such as maize and rice.
  • Dianthoides, several Astragali, one with the pinnulae dentato serratis, petiola spinosa, a tufted Monocotyledonous plant with terete canaliculate subulate leaves, _Salvia_, Gramen alterum, Composita dislocata, Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
  • Jussieu classifies plants on the basis of cotyledons, and divides all plants into acotyledons, monocotyledons, and dicotyledons.
  • Besides this constitutive system, iron reductases have been described in dicotyledons and non-grass monocotyledons that reduce iron prior to uptake.
  • One of these determinables is number of cotyledons under which fall the determinates acotyledon, monocotyledon, and dicotyledon. Determinates vs. Determinables
  • Amorphophallus is a monocotyledonous perennial herb. Konjac glucomannan which is rich in the corm has been applied widely in food, medicine, chemistry and agriculture industry.
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