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- noun Plural form of
monocotyledon .
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Examples
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The two outstanding features of the representation of families in the southern Drakensberg flora are the high percentages of Compositae (285 species) and of monocotyledons (five families), which together comprise over 55% of the flora.
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Some 374 species of dicotyledons, including 89 trees, 139 species of monocotyledons and 15 species of orchid have been identified.
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Wetland monocotyledons are also diverse in this region, with genera from the Cyperaceaae, Xyridacease, Juncaginaceae, Restionaceae, and Orchidaeceae well-represented.
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It's definitely more "characterized by monocotyledons"
some words asakiyume 2006
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Orchids are one of the most developed of all monocotyledons.
Orchids of Mexico 1997
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The yams belong to the family Dioscoreaceae, a group of plants which, like the grasses, have one cotyledon (monocotyledons).
Chapter 7 1999
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Essential oil-bearing plants of India: a review of the monocotyledons.
Chapter 14 1987
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His research interests are in comparative anatomy and phylogeny of flowering plants, commercial timbers, histology of monocotyledons, economic botany, and tropical biology.
Chapter 7 1983
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His research interests are in comparative anatomy and phylogeny of flowering plants, commercial timbers, histology of monocotyledons, economic botany, and tropical biology.
Chapter 11 1983
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HARDMAN, R. and WENSLEY, W.R. (1965) Effects of enzymes on Yucca glauca Nutt. and other steroidyielding monocotyledons.
Chapter 5 1953
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