English > monocot family: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed. |
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| Synonym | liliopsid family |
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| Member of | Dicotyledones, class Dicotyledones, Dicotyledonae, class Dicotyledonae, Magnoliopsida, class Magnoliopsida | Comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with paired cotyledons and net-veined leaves |
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| Narrower | Acoraceae, subfamily Acoraceae | Used in some classifications for the genus Acorus which is usually assigned to Araceae |
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| Alismataceae, family Alismataceae, water-plantain family | perennial or annual aquatic or marsh plants |
| Araceae, family Araceae, arum family | anthurium |
| Bromeliaceae, family Bromeliaceae, pineapple family | A family of tropical American plants of order Xyridales including several (as the pineapple) of economic importance |
| Burmanniaceae, family Burmanniaceae | family of chiefly tropical herbs with basal leaves like bracts and small flowers |
| Cannaceae, family Cannaceae | coextensive with the genus Canna |
| Commelinaceae, family Commelinaceae, spiderwort family | large widely distributed family of chiefly perennial herbs or climbers |
| Cyperaceae, family Cyperaceae, sedge family | bulrush |
| Eriocaulaceae, family Eriocaulaceae, pipewort family | chiefly tropical aquatic or bog herbs |
| Gramineae, family Gramineae, Graminaceae, family Graminaceae, Poaceae, family Poaceae, grass family | The grasses |
| Haemodoraceae, family Haemodoraceae, bloodwort family | Some genera placed in family Liliaceae |
| Hydrocharitaceae, family Hydrocharitaceae, Hydrocharidaceae, family Hydrocharidaceae, frogbit family, frog's-bit family | simple nearly stemless freshwater aquatic plants |
| Juncaceae, family Juncaceae, rush family | tufted herbs resembling grasses |
| Lemnaceae, family Lemnaceae, duckweed family | family of small free-floating thalloid plants |
| Marantaceae, family Marantaceae, arrowroot family | Tropical perennial herbs with usually starchy rhizomes |
| Mayacaceae, family Mayacaceae | A monocotyledonous family of bog plants of order Xyridales |
| Musaceae, family Musaceae, banana family | treelike tropical Asian herbs |
| Naiadaceae, family Naiadaceae, Najadaceae, family Najadaceae, naiad family | monotypic family of aquatic plants having narrow leaves and small flowers |
| Orchidaceae, family Orchidaceae, orchid family | enormous cosmopolitan family of perennial terrestrial or epiphytic plants with fleshy tubers or rootstocks / rootstocks and unusual flowers |
| Palmae, family Palmae, Palmaceae, family Palmaceae, Arecaceae, family Arecaceae, palm family | chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves |
| Pandanaceae, family Pandanaceae, screw-pine family | family of woody plants of the order Pandanales including pandanus |
| Pontederiaceae, family Pontederiaceae, pickerelweed family | aquatic or bog plants |
| Potamogetonaceae, family Potamogetonaceae, pondweed family | plants that grow in ponds and slow streams |
| Rapateaceae, family Rapateaceae | South American herbs somewhat resembling members of the Juncaceae |
| Scheuchzeriaceae, family Scheuchzeriaceae, Juncaginaceae, family Juncaginaceae, arrow-grass family | A family of monocotyledonous bog herbs of order Naiadales |
| Sparganiaceae, family Sparganiaceae, bur-reed family | coextensive with the genus Sparganium |
| Strelitziaceae, family Strelitziaceae, strelitzia family | woody plants with erect stems of tropical South America and South Africa and Madagascar / Madagascar |
| Typhaceae, family Typhaceae, cattail family | perennial marsh plants with creeping rootstocks / rootstocks and long linear leaves |
| Xyridaceae, family Xyridaceae, yellow-eyed grass family | plants of tropical to temperate regions |
| Zannichelliaceae, family Zannichelliaceae | Alternative classification for some genera included in Potamogetonaceae |
| Zingiberaceae, family Zingiberaceae, ginger family | A family of tropical monocotyledonous plants of order Musales |
| Zosteraceae, family Zosteraceae, eelgrass family | Used in some classifications |
| liliid monocot family | family of monocotyledonous plants of the subclass Liliidae |
| Broader | family | (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera |
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| Spanish | monocotiledóneas |
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| Catalan | monocotiledònies |
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