monocotyledonae

1. 1.

   comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with a single cotyledon and parallel-veined leaves: includes grasses and lilies and palms and orchids; divided into four subclasses or superorders: Alismatidae; Arecidae; Commelinidae; and Liliidae

   SynonymsMonocotyledonesclass Monocotyledonesclass MonocotyledonaeLiliopsidaclass Liliopsida

   Broaderclass

   Part ofAngiospermae

Other forms of monocotyledonae

plural

monocotyledonaes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about monocotyledonae

What does monocotyledonae mean?

monocotyledonae means "comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with a single cotyledon and parallel-veined leaves: includes grasses and lilies and palms and orchids; divided into four subclasses or superorders: Alismatidae; Arecidae; Commelinidae; and Liliidae".

How many syllables are in monocotyledonae?

monocotyledonae has 7 syllables: mo-no-co-ty-le-do-nae. The stress falls on "le".

What is another word for monocotyledonae?

Close synonyms include Monocotyledones, class Monocotyledones, class Monocotyledonae, Liliopsida, class Liliopsida. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is monocotyledonae a common word?

monocotyledonae is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.