monocotyledonous
/mon-uh-kot-l-eed-n-uhs/US // ˌmɒn əˌkɒt lˈid n əs //
单子叶植物,单子叶植物的,单子叶植物群,单子叶的
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : belonging or pertaining to the monocotyledons.
Examples
A farmer does not divide plants, like a botanist, into dicotyledonous and monocotyledonous, but into useful plants and weeds.
Scirpus, sir′pus, n. a genus of monocotyledonous plants, including the bulrushes.
In some monocotyledonous embryos, as in Orchidaceae, the embryo is a cellular mass showing no parts.
Monocotyledonous (meaning with single cotyledon) is the name of the one-cotyledoned sort of embryo.
Thus, in modern botany, the Dicotyledonous plants compose one class, the Monocotyledonous plants another (36-40).
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