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Monocotyledones

noun
1.
Comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with a single cotyledon and parallel-veined leaves: includes grasses and lilies and palms and orchids; divided into four subclasses or superorders: Alismatidae; Arecidae; Commelinidae; and Liliidae.  Synonyms: class Liliopsida, class Monocotyledonae, class Monocotyledones, Liliopsida, Monocotyledonae.






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"Monocotyledones" Quotes from Famous Books



... the whitish rock-rose (Cistus albidus), lined with a hairy felt; those of the holm-oak, selected among the young and bristly ones; those of the hawthorn, smooth but tough; those of the cultivated reed, the only one of the Monocotyledones exploited, as far as I know, by the Megachiles. In the construction of cells, on the other hand, I see smooth leaves predominating, notably those of the wild briar and of the common acacia, the robinia. It would appear, therefore, that the insect distinguishes between ...
— Bramble-bees and Others • J. Henri Fabre



Words linked to "Monocotyledones" :   subclass Alismatidae, Naiadales, class Angiospermae, Angiospermae, monocotyledon, division Magnoliophyta, order Alismales, Alismatidae, liliopsid genus, monocot genus, Liliidae, subclass Commelinidae, Liliopsida, Arecidae, division Anthophyta, subclass Arecidae, class, order Naiadales, Magnoliophyta, endogen, Alismales, Commelinidae, Anthophyta, liliopsid, monocot, subclass Liliidae



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