Usually means: Seed plants with one cotyledon.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. monocotyledons: Merriam-Webster
  2. monocotyledons: Collins English Dictionary
  3. monocotyledons: Vocabulary.com
  4. Monocotyledons, monocotyledons: Wordnik
  5. monocotyledons: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. monocotyledons: Wiktionary
  7. monocotyledons: Dictionary.com
  8. Monocotyledons: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Monocotyledons: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Monocotyledons: Encyclopedia

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  1. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (monocotyledon)

noun:  (botany) Any plant whose seedlings typically have one cotyledon (seed leaf) (in contrast to the two cotyledons typical of dicots), thereby belonging to the taxonomic monocots, formerly variously known as Monocotyledones, Monocotyledonae, or Liliopsida, a class in the angiosperms (Angiospermae), the flowering plants.
▸ Also see monocotyledon


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