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What is a monocotyledon?

What is a monocotyledon? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (botany) Any plant whose seedlings typically have one cotyledon (seed leaf) (in contrast to the two cotyledons typical of dicots), thereby belonging to the taxonomic monocots, formerly variously known as Monocotyledones, Monocotyledonae, or Liliopsida, a class in the angiosperms (Angiospermae), the flowering plants.
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One of these determinables is number of cotyledons under which fall the determinates acotyledon, monocotyledon, and dicotyledon.
Sandersonia aurantiaca is a liliaceous monocotyledon with a bell-shaped corolla formed from fused petals and sepals.
However, it should be kept in mind that young leaves of dicotyledons are more heterogenous as to cell age, than sections of a monocotyledon leaf.
The term monocotyledon is applied to these plants because the embryo has only one cotyledon or seed-leaf.
Taxonomically, the three wood species are respectively gymnosperm, monocotyledon and dicotyledon.

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