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
• Syn: ↑Monocotyledones, ↑class Monocotyledones, ↑class Monocotyledonae, ↑Liliopsida, ↑class Liliopsida
• Hypernyms: ↑class
• Member Holonyms: ↑Angiospermae, ↑class Angiospermae, ↑Magnoliophyta, ↑division Magnoliophyta, ↑Anthophyta, ↑division Anthophyta
• Member Meronyms:
Useful english dictionary. 2012.