monocot family meaning

Noun: monocot family

1. Family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed
   - liliopsid family

Type of: family

Part of: class Dicotyledonae, class Dicotyledones, class Magnoliopsida, Dicotyledonae, Dicotyledones, Magnoliopsida

Examples

1. Other large monocot families include the Pandanaceae with 78 endemic traveller's tree is the sole Madagascan species in the family Strelitziaceae.
2. The family has recently been resurrected as molecular systematic studies have shown that " Acorus " is not closely related to Araceae or any other monocot family, leading plant systematists to place the genus and family in its own order.
3. Monocots with broad leaves and reticulate leaf veins, typical of dicots, are found in a wide variety of monocot families : for example, " Trillium ", " Smilax " ( greenbriar ), and " Pogonia " ( an orchid ), and the Dioscoreales ( yams ) . " Potamogeton " are one of several monocots with tetramerous flowers.
4. All jacalin-related lectins feature type I beta-prism folding motifs ( the beta-prism I fold is like a perfect beta-prism with each side made up of a four-stranded greek key motif ), but BanLec is the first jacalin-related lectin from the monocot family of plants, while all other members are dicots; other monocot mannose-binding lectins exhibit beta-prism II folding instead.