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Definition of Class monocotyledones
1. Noun. 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.
Generic synonyms: Class
Member holonyms: Liliopsid Genus, Monocot Genus, Endogen, Liliopsid, Monocot, Monocotyledon, Alismatidae, Subclass Alismatidae, Arecidae, Subclass Arecidae, Commelinidae, Subclass Commelinidae, Liliidae, Subclass Liliidae, Alismales, Naiadales, Order Alismales, Order Naiadales
Group relationships: Angiospermae, Anthophyta, Class Angiospermae, Division Anthophyta, Division Magnoliophyta, Magnoliophyta
Literary usage of Class monocotyledones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"I. class monocotyledones. 1190. Order Pandanales.—Aquatic or marsh plants.
The cattail flags (Typha) and the bur-reeds (Sparganium), each representing a ..."
2. Lessons in Botany by George Francis Atkinson (1900)
"Class, Monocotyledones. Order, Liliiflorae. Family, Liliaceae. Genus, Trillium.
Species, grandiflorum. In the same way the position of toothwort would be ..."
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