monocotyledonous

1. 1.

   (of a flowering plant) having a single cotyledon in the seed as in grasses and lilies

   Antonymsdicotyledonous

   plant

Questions about monocotyledonous

What does monocotyledonous mean?

monocotyledonous means "(of a flowering plant) having a single cotyledon in the seed as in grasses and lilies".

How many syllables are in monocotyledonous?

monocotyledonous has 7 syllables and divides as mo-no-co-ty-le-do-nous under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is the opposite of monocotyledonous?

The recorded antonyms are dicotyledonous.

Is monocotyledonous a common word?

monocotyledonous 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.