Monocotyledon

monocotyledon (alt. monocot, adj. monocotyledonous)
A plant with one cotyledon or seed leaf.
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monocotyledon See monocot.
monoecious A species having both male and female flowers on the same plant. Pecans, avocados, and squash are examples on monecious plants. See dioecious.

Palms are a woody monocotyledon of the family Arecaceae. They are composed of durable, fibrous material, and they leave fairly good fossil records, some of which have been traced to the cretaceous period, about 65 million years ago.

Confined to a few tropical monocotyledons which grow on the island of Madagascar.filament search for term- n. (L. filum, thread) the stalk bearing the anther.filiform search for term- a.

In monocotyledons, the seed contains only one seed leaf and in dicotyledons it has two. In monocots, such as grasses, the single cotyledon remains inside the seed and acts as a digestive organ for the embryo.

Most bulbous plants are petaloid monocotyledons, meaning they sprout a single leaf as their seeds germinate, and they have petaled flowers.

Rather than a distinct botanical category, like monocotyledons or magnolias, vines are a behavioral group, plants that adapted to their surroundings by becoming scandent.

The Garden Ginger (Zingiber Officinale) is generally described as a perennial forb/herb. This monocot (monocotyledon) is not native to the U.S. (United States) .
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Probably because of its height, the banana plant is often incorrectly called a banana tree. Actually, though, the banana is the largest herbaceous perennial and belongs to the monocotyledons of the Musaceae family, which also includes palms, grasses, ...

Flowering plants were divided into 2 classes: Monocotyledones (monocots) and Dicotyledones (dicots). As the names imply, the main distinction is the number of cotyledons present in the seed embryo - 1 or 2.

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