monocotyledonous
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of monocotyledonous
First recorded in 1760–70; monocotyledon + -ous
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The flower has in rare cases a perianth of six scale-like leaves arranged in two whorls, and thus conforming to the common monocotyledonous type of flower.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
On digging deep into the ground, in high valleys, where neither palm-trees nor arborescent ferns can grow, strata of coal are discovered, that still show vestiges of gigantic monocotyledonous plants.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt
The names proposed in the pasigraphico-geognostic plan were borrowed from De Candolle's nomenclature, in which 'endogenous' is synonymous with monocotyledonous, and 'exogenous' with dicotyledonous plants.
From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Alexander von Humboldt
It seemed to me a strange spectacle,—a forest of monocotyledonous trees with a dicotyledonous undergrowth; the inferior plants thus towering above and sheltering the superior ones.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 by Various
A family of tropical monocotyledonous plants, including the banana and plantains.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
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