Hence the class of endogens are sometimes called monocotyledonous plants, while that of exogens are called dicotyledonous. From Wordnik.com. [Aboriginal America] Reference
Are the sheaths found on certain radicles strictly confined to monocotyledonous plants. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
The shoots and roots of grasses conform in their internal structure to the monocotyledonous type. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Coleorhiza the sheath of a monocotyledonous embryo which is pierced by the radicle during germination, 18. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Bundle sheath sclerenchymatous cells or fibres found round the vascular bundles of the monocotyledonous type, such as those of grasses, 20. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Other monocotyledonous groups with simplicity of floral elements, such as the typhaceæ, contain large quantities of starch; in the case of. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887] Reference
Perhaps monocotyledonous plants are more subject to this numerical reduction of the parts of several verticils than are other flowering plants. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
In monocotyledonous flowers, especially those with a coloured perianth, the substitution of segments of the perianth for stamens occurs not unfrequently. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
All these plants are grouped under three main divisions: apetalous, monocotyledonous, and dicotyledonous; and these main divisions are further subdivided. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887] Reference
= -- As already stated, the roots of grasses conform to the monocotyledonous type, but the variations met with in their structure are not so great as in the case of the stem. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
It seemed to me a strange spectacle, -- a forest of monocotyledonous trees with a dicotyledonous undergrowth; the inferior plants thus towering above and sheltering the superior ones. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
Intermediate forms connected each of these types with those of monocotyledonous trees. From Wordnik.com. [On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature] Reference
We there find fragments of wood, in great part monocotyledonous, and masses of brown iron-ore. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference
It is anterior to the period when the surface of the earth became covered with monocotyledonous plants. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference
In some instances the complete double whorl of six, corresponding to the ancestral monocotyledonous type, has been found. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
A farmer does not divide plants, like a botanist, into dicotyledonous and monocotyledonous, but into useful plants and weeds. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference
Candolle's nomenclature, in which 'endogenous' is synonymous with monocotyledonous, and 'exogenous' with dicotyledonous plants. From Wordnik.com. [COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1] Reference
In monocotyledonous plants its passage is through the innermost layer of the structure, which is also the most recently formed. From Wordnik.com. [Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator.] Reference
Upstream of the beta-glucuronidase start codon GTDsB carries splice donor and acceptor sites optimized for monocotyledonous plants. From Wordnik.com. [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference
These small monocotyledonous flowering plants are relevant to many aquatic ecosystems, providing food and habitat for various animals and microorganisms. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
The forerunners now appeared of the modern dicotyls (plants with two seed leaves), and in the Middle Cretaceous the monocotyledonous group of palms came in. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Geology] Reference
The gymnogens appear rather prematurely, it might be thought, in the old red sandstone, the endogens (monocotyledonous) coming after them in the carboniferous group. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Reviews: The Education of the World, Bunsen's Biblical Researches, On the Study of the Evidences of Christianity; Seances Historiques de Gen��ve; On the Mosaic Cosmogony; Tendencies of Religious Thought in England, 1688-1750; On the Interpretation of Scripture.] Reference
And with these there appear, though more sparingly, the Endogens, -- monocotyledonous plants, represented by a few palm-like trees (Palmacites), a few date-like fruits. From Wordnik.com. [The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed] Reference
But then we find that labiates and their allies among the dicotyledonous plants, and orchids among the monocotyledonous ones are especially subjected to this alteration. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
In the monocotyledonous plants there is no milky juice; but the perisperm of the palms, which yields such sweet and agreeable milky emulsions, contains, no doubt, caseum. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
(The Narcissus Tribe.) Some of these are poisonous, and Lindley says that it is one of the few of the monocotyledonous orders in which any poisonous properties are found. From Wordnik.com. [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference
Endogens, -- monocotyledonous flowering plants, that include the palms, the liliaceæ, and several other families, all characterized by the parallel venation of their leaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed] Reference
I can see that the simplest cryptogamic are lowest, and I suppose, from their relations, the monocotyledonous come next; but how in the different families of the dicotyledons?. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
Secondary strata, presenting a much smaller number of monocotyledonous plants; (a) Co-ordinate and almost contemporary formations with red sandstone (rothe todtes liegende), quartz-porphyry and fern-coal. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference
A quantity of dicotyledonous mixed with monocotyledonous plants. (f). From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference
&c., and still more abundantly in certain monocotyledonous seeds, such as wheat and barley. From Wordnik.com. [The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock] Reference
(urthonschiefer) may even be doubted, that is, of a formation which is not joined below by strata containing some vestiges of monocotyledonous plants. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference
(followed by words like "two-toed, slimy, monocotyledonous ..., etc."). From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 2] Reference
In all the monocotyledonous plants. From Wordnik.com. [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference
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