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What does monocotyledonous mean?

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Adjective
  1. (botany) Of or pertaining to a flowering plant having a seed with one embryonic leaf (a single cotyledon).
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Moreover, there is the CAM-performing Yoshua tree of the genus Yucca with a special monocotyledonous type of secondary thickening.
To other monocotyledonous families the resemblances are merely of adaptive or vegetative characters.
The rhizome is always solid, and has the usual internal structure of the monocotyledonous stem.
Another form of tropical monocotyledonous forest is the bamboo thicket, common in Asia, composed of giant woody grasses.
The experimental host range is very wide, with species in more than 35 dicotyledonous and monocotyledonous families being susceptible.
Palm, any member of the Arecaceae, or Palmae, the single family of monocotyledonous flowering plants of the order Arecales.

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