monocotyledonous

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Etymology

From mono- +‎ cotyledon +‎ -ous.

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monocotyledonous (not comparable)

  1. (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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