MONOCOT FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does monocot family mean? 

• MONOCOT FAMILY (noun)
  The noun MONOCOT FAMILY has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: MONOCOT FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MONOCOT FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

liliopsid family; monocot family

Hypernyms ("monocot family" is a kind of...):

family ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "monocot family"):

family Pontederiaceae; pickerelweed family; Pontederiaceae (aquatic or bog plants)

family Zingiberaceae; ginger family; Zingiberaceae (a family of tropical monocotyledonous plants of order Musales)

Arecaceae; family Arecaceae; family Palmaceae; family Palmae; palm family; Palmaceae; Palmae (chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves; coextensive with the order Palmales)

family Xyridaceae; Xyridaceae; yellow-eyed grass family (plants of tropical to temperate regions; usually in wet places)

Commelinaceae; family Commelinaceae; spiderwort family (large widely distributed family of chiefly perennial herbs or climbers: spiderworts)

Bromeliaceae; family Bromeliaceae; pineapple family (a family of tropical American plants of order Xyridales including several (as the pineapple) of economic importance)

family Mayacaceae; Mayacaceae (a monocotyledonous family of bog plants of order Xyridales)

family Rapateaceae; Rapateaceae (South American herbs somewhat resembling members of the Juncaceae)

Eriocaulaceae; family Eriocaulaceae; pipewort family (chiefly tropical aquatic or bog herbs: pipeworts)

family Strelitziaceae; strelitzia family; Strelitziaceae (woody plants with erect stems of tropical South America and South Africa and Madagascar; in some classifications included in the family Musaceae)

family Naiadaceae; family Najadaceae; naiad family; Naiadaceae; Najadaceae (monotypic family of aquatic plants having narrow leaves and small flowers)

Alismataceae; family Alismataceae; water-plantain family (perennial or annual aquatic or marsh plants)

family Hydrocharidaceae; family Hydrocharitaceae; frog's-bit family; frogbit family; Hydrocharidaceae; Hydrocharitaceae (simple nearly stemless freshwater aquatic plants; widely distributed)

family Potamogetonaceae; pondweed family; Potamogetonaceae (plants that grow in ponds and slow streams; sometimes includes family Zosteraceae)

arrow-grass family; family Juncaginaceae; family Scheuchzeriaceae; Juncaginaceae; Scheuchzeriaceae (a family of monocotyledonous bog herbs of order Naiadales)

family Zannichelliaceae; Zannichelliaceae (alternative classification for some genera included in Potamogetonaceae; one species)

eelgrass family; family Zosteraceae; Zosteraceae (used in some classifications: essentially equivalent to Potamogetonaceae)

banana family; family Musaceae; Musaceae (treelike tropical Asian herbs)

family Juncaceae; Juncaceae; rush family (tufted herbs resembling grasses: rushes)

Araceae; arum family; family Araceae (anthurium; calla lily; jack-in-the-pulpit; philodendron)

Acoraceae; subfamily Acoraceae (used in some classifications for the genus Acorus which is usually assigned to Araceae)

duckweed family; family Lemnaceae; Lemnaceae (family of small free-floating thalloid plants)

family Orchidaceae; orchid family; Orchidaceae (enormous cosmopolitan family of perennial terrestrial or epiphytic plants with fleshy tubers or rootstocks and unusual flowers)

Burmanniaceae; family Burmanniaceae (family of chiefly tropical herbs with basal leaves like bracts and small flowers)

family Graminaceae; family Gramineae; family Poaceae; Graminaceae; Gramineae; grass family; Poaceae (the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane)

Cyperaceae; family Cyperaceae; sedge family (bulrush; chufa; cotton grass; papyrus; umbrella plant)

family Pandanaceae; Pandanaceae; screw-pine family (family of woody plants of the order Pandanales including pandanus)

cattail family; family Typhaceae; Typhaceae (perennial marsh plants with creeping rootstocks and long linear leaves)

bur-reed family; family Sparganiaceae; Sparganiaceae (coextensive with the genus Sparganium)

bloodwort family; family Haemodoraceae; Haemodoraceae (some genera placed in family Liliaceae)

Cannaceae; family Cannaceae (coextensive with the genus Canna)

arrowroot family; family Marantaceae; Marantaceae (tropical perennial herbs with usually starchy rhizomes)

liliid monocot family (family of monocotyledonous plants of the subclass Liliidae; mostly herbs usually with petaloid sepals and petals and compound pistils)

Holonyms ("monocot family" is a member of...):

class Dicotyledonae; class Dicotyledones; class Magnoliopsida; Dicotyledonae; Dicotyledones; Magnoliopsida (comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with paired cotyledons and net-veined leaves; divided into six (not always well distinguished) subclasses (or superorders): Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae (considered primitive); Caryophyllidae (an early and distinctive offshoot); and three more or less advanced groups: Dilleniidae; Rosidae; Asteridae)