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Etymology
mono- + cotyledon + -ous
Adjective
monocotyledonous (not comparable)
- (botany) Of or pertaining to a flowering plant having a seed with one embryonic leaf (a single cotyledon).
1890, [Jacques] Élisée Reclus, “The Mascarenhas”, in A. H. Keane, editor, Oceanica (The Earth and Its Inhabitants; 14), New York: D. Appleton and Company, Flora and Fauna:Strange to say, the islet of Ronde, about 16 miles north of Mauritius, forms a separate biological kingdom, possessing one peculiar species of cabbage-palm, some lizards, two snakes, and relatively more monocotyledonous plants than any other region in the world.
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of or pertaining to a flowering plant having a seed with one embryonic leaf (a single cotyledon)