单词 | pseudo-monocotyledon |
释义 | > as lemmaspseudo-monocotyledon pseudo-monocotyledon n. Brit. /s(j)uːdə(ʊ)ˌmɒnə(ʊ)kɒtlˈiːdn/ , U.S. /ˌsudoʊˌmɑnəˌkɑdlˈidn/ [perhaps after French pseudomonocotylédoné, noun (1808 in the passage translated in quot. 1819; < post-classical Latin pseudo-monocotyledonea , use as noun of neuter plural of pseudo-monocotyledoneus : see pseudomonocotyledonous adj.)] Botany (now rare) a dicotyledonous plant in which one of the cotyledons has been aborted at an early stage.ΚΠ 1819 J. Lindley tr. L.-C. Richard Observ. Struct. Fruits & Seeds 74 Gaertner has distinguished the last by the sesquipedalian, but correct name of pseudomonocotyledones [Fr. pseudomonocotylédonés].] 1900 B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms 214/1 Pseudomonocotyledon, in Dicotyledons the early abortion of one of the cotyledons, as in Capsella. 1915 New Phytologist 14 141 The morphology and anatomy of certain pseudo-monocotyledons. 1945 W. O. Lawson & L. G. G. Warne Lowson's Textbk. Bot. (ed. 9) xvii. 425 On this account they have been named Pseudo-Monocotyledons. < as lemmas |
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