MONOCOTYLEDONOUS • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Monocotyledonous

... science or art forms its classification of things according to the properties which fall within its special cognizance, or of which it must take account in order to accomplish its peculiar practical end. A farmer does not divide plants, like a botanist, into dicotyledonous and monocotyledonous, but into useful plants and weeds. A geologist divides fossils, not like a zoologist, into families corresponding to those of living species, but into fossils of the paleozoic, mesozoic, and tertiary ...

— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill