English > Liliopsida: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | 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. |
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| Synonyms | Monocotyledones, class Monocotyledones, Monocotyledonae, class Monocotyledonae, class Liliopsida |
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| Member of | Angiospermae, class Angiospermae, Magnoliophyta, division Magnoliophyta, Anthophyta, division Anthophyta | Comprising flowering plants that produce seeds enclosed in an ovary |
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| Members | Alismatidae, subclass Alismatidae | One of four subclasses or superorders of Monocotyledones |
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| Arecidae, subclass Arecidae | One of four subclasses or superorder of Monocotyledones |
| Commelinidae, subclass Commelinidae | One of four subclasses or superorders of Monocotyledones |
| Liliidae, subclass Liliidae | One of four subclasses or superorders of Monocotyledones |
| Naiadales, order Naiadales, Alismales, order Alismales | An order of aquatic monocotyledonous herbaceous plants |
| monocot, monocotyledon, liliopsid, endogen | A monocotyledonous flowering plant |
| monocot genus, liliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed |
| Broader | class | (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders |
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| Spanish | monocotiledóneas, Monocotyledones |
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| Catalan | Liliopsida |
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