monocotyledon

Any of various flowering plants, such as grasses, lilies, and palms, having a single cotyledon in the seed, and usually a combination of other characteristics, typically leaves with parallel veins, a lack of secondary growth, and flower parts in multiples of three.

A monocotyledonous plant; an endogen. See endogen, and cut under cotyledon.

A plant with only one cotyledon, or seed lobe; a member of the Monocotyledonae.

Any plant belonging to the Monocotyledones (also written Monocotyledonae) or Liliopsida, a class in the Angiospermae, the flowering plants. This group include the grasses, lilies, orchids and palms.

a monocotyledonous flowering plant; the stem grows by deposits on its inside