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MONOCOT GENUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed
Synonyms:
liliopsid genus; monocot genus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("monocot genus" is a kind of...):
genus ((biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "monocot genus"):
liliid monocot genus (genus of monocotyledonous plants comprising mostly herbs having usually petaloid sepals and petals and compound pistils)
genus Juncus; Juncus (type genus of the Juncaceae; perennial tufted glabrous marsh plants of temperate regions: rushes)
genus Arum (type genus of the Araceae: tuberous perennial herbs of Europe and Asia with usually heart-shaped leaves)
Acorus; genus Acorus (sweet flags; sometimes placed in subfamily Acoraceae)
Aglaonema; genus Aglaonema (climbing herbs of southeastern Asia having thick fleshy oblong leaves and naked unisexual flowers: Chinese evergreen)
genus Alocasia (tropical Asiatic herbs similar to Colocasia but distinguished by a large sterile spadix)
genus Amorphophallus (genus of large tropical east Asian cormous aroids: devil's tongue; snake palm)
genus Anthurium (large genus of often epiphytic evergreen tropical American plants often cultivated as houseplants)
Arisaema; genus Arisaema (tuberous or rhizomatous herbaceous perennials)
Arisarum; genus Arisarum (tuberous or rhizomatous perennial herbs; mainly Mediterranean area)
genus Caladium (small genus of tropical South American tuberous perennials with large variously colored leaves)
Calla; genus Calla (water arum)
Colocasia; genus Colocasia (small genus of perennial tuberous herbs of tropical Asia: taro)
genus Cryptocoryne (water trumpet; aquatic herbs having broad leaves and long slender spathes; often used as aquarium plants)
Dieffenbachia; genus Dieffenbachia (evergreen perennial herbs of tropical America with lush foliage and poisonous sap; often cultivated as houseplants)
genus Dracontium (small genus of tropical American cormous herbs)
Dracunculus; genus Dracunculus (tuberous herbaceous perennials: dragon arum)
Epipremnum; genus Epipremnum (small genus of evergreen lianas of southeastern Asia to western Pacific areas)
genus Lysichiton; genus Lysichitum; Lysichiton; Lysichitum (skunk cabbage)
genus Monstera (tropical American climbing plant with deeply incised leaves)
genus Nephthytis (small genus of tropical western African creeping or twining herbs)
genus Orontium; Orontium (one species of aquatic plant: golden club)
genus Peltandra; Peltandra (small genus of North American marsh or aquatic herbs)
genus Philodendron (any of several tropical American climbing plants with smooth shiny evergreen leaves)
genus Pistia (one species: water lettuce)
genus Pothos; genus Scindapsus; Scindapsus (evergreen climbers with adhesive adventitious roots; southeastern Asia and Brazil)
genus Spathiphyllum (evergreen rhizomatous perennials of tropical America and Philippines and Indonesia)
genus Symplocarpus; Symplocarpus (one species: skunk cabbage)
genus Syngonium; Syngonium (epiphytic or terrestrial climbing shrubs of Central and South America; used as ornamental houseplants for their velvety foliage)
genus Xanthosoma; Xanthosoma (tropical American tuberous perennials)
genus Zantedeschia; Zantedeschia (calla lily)
genus Lemna; Lemna (minute aquatic herbs floating on or below the water surface of still water consisting of a leaflike frond or plant body and single root)
genus Spirodela; Spirodela (minute aquatic herbs floating on the water surface consisting of a shiny leaflike frond and 2-21 roots)
genus Wolffia; Wolffia (minute rootless aquatic herbs having globular fronds floating on or near the water surface and bearing one flower per frond)
genus Wolffiella; Wolffiella (minute rootless aquatic herbs having flat fronds floating on or below the water surface and bearing 1-2 flowers per frond; America and Africa)
genus Orchis (type genus of the orchid family; hardy terrestrial orchids of the temperate the northern hemisphere)
genus Aerides (epiphytic orchids of tropical Asia having stiff leaves and fragrant white flowers in arching racemes)
Angraecum; genus Angraecum; genus Angrecum (genus of tropical Old World epiphytic orchids with showy flowers sometimes grotesque)
Anoectochilus; genus Anoectochilus (genus of delicate Asiatic orchids)
Aplectrum; genus Aplectrum (a monocotyledonous genus of the family Orchidaceae)
genus Arethusa (genus of bog orchids of North America and Japan)
genus Bletia (genus of tropical American terrestrial orchids with large purple or pink flowers)
Bletilla; genus Bletilla (small genus of chiefly east Asiatic hardy terrestrial orchids similar to genus Bletia)
genus Brassavola (genus of tropical American epiphytic or lithophytic rhizomatous orchids)
Brassia; genus Brassia (genus of tropical American epiphytic orchids having striking axillary racemes of yellow to green spiderlike flowers with long slender sepals and warty lips: spider orchids)
genus Caladenia (terrestrial orchids of Australia to New Caledonia)
genus Calanthe (large and widely distributed genus of terrestrial orchids)
Calopogon; genus Calopogon (terrestrial orchids of North America)
genus Calypso (one species found throughout much of northern North America and Eurasia)
Catasetum; genus Catasetum (genus of tropical American orchids having showy male and female flowers usually on separate inflorescences)
genus Cattleya (large and highly valued genus of beautiful tropical American epiphytic or lithophytic orchids; the typical orchids; known in many varieties)
Cephalanthera; genus Cephalanthera (small genus of temperate Old World terrestrial orchids)
Cleistes; genus Cleistes (terrestrial orchids of North and South America having slender fibrous roots; allied to genus Pogonia)
Coeloglossum; genus Coeloglossum (terrestrial orchids of cooler parts of North America and Europe: satyr orchid)
genus Coelogyne (large diverse genus of tropical Asiatic epiphytic orchids)
Corallorhiza; genus Corallorhiza (genus of leafless root-parasitic orchids having small purplish or yellowish racemose flowers with lobed lips; widely distributed in temperate regions)
Coryanthes; genus Coryanthes (small genus of tropical American epiphytic or lithophytic orchids)
Cycnoches; genus Cycnoches (genus of epiphytic or terrestrial tropical American orchids)
genus Cymbidium (genus of tropical epiphytic or terrestrial Old World orchids; one of the most popular orchid genera)
Cypripedium; genus Cypripedium (genus of chiefly American perennial leafy-stemmed orchids: lady's slippers; sometimes includes species of genus Paphiopedilum)
Dactylorhiza; genus Dactylorhiza (genus of terrestrial orchids of Europe and Asia and North Africa)
genus Dendrobium (large genus and variable genus of chiefly epiphytic or lithophytic orchids of tropical and subtropical Asia and Australasia)
genus Disa (genus of showy tropical African terrestrial orchids)
Dracula; genus Dracula (comprises tropical American species usually placed in genus Masdevallia: diminutive plants having bizarre and often sinister-looking flowers with pendulous scapes and motile lips)
Dryadella; genus Dryadella (comprises tropical American species usually placed in genus Masdevallia: very dwarf plants having short tufted and usually unifoliate stems with usually solitary flowers)
Eburophyton; genus Eburophyton (a monocotyledonous genus of the family Orchidaceae)
Encyclia; genus Encyclia (large genus of epiphytic and lithophytic orchids of tropical and subtropical Americas and West Indies; formerly included in genus Epidendrum)
Epidendrum; genus Epidendrum (large and variable genus of terrestrial or epiphytic or lithophytic orchids of tropical and subtropical Americas; some native to United States)
Epipactis; genus Epipactis (genus of hardy orchids with leafy-bracted racemes of greenish or purplish irregular flowers)
genus Glossodia; Glossodia (small genus of Australian orchids)
genus Goodyera; Goodyera (genus of small orchids of the northern hemisphere with creeping rhizomes and stalked ovate leaves and small flowers)
genus Grammatophyllum; Grammatophyllum (small genus of large epiphytic or terrestrial orchids of southeastern Asia to Polynesia; the giants of the Orchidaceae having long narrow leaves and drooping flower clusters often 6 feet long)
genus Gymnadenia; Gymnadenia (small genus of terrestrial orchids of North America and temperate Eurasia)
genus Gymnadeniopsis; Gymnadeniopsis (genus of North American terrestrial orchids usually included in genus Habenaria)
genus Habenaria; Habenaria (chiefly terrestrial orchids with tubers or fleshy roots often having long slender spurs and petals and lip lobes; includes species formerly placed in genus Gymnadeniopsis)
genus Hexalectris; Hexalectris (a monocotyledonous genus of the family Orchidaceae)
genus Himantoglossum; Himantoglossum (small genus of terrestrial orchids of Europe and Mediterranean region)
genus Laelia (large genus of mostly epiphytic or lithophytic Central and South American orchids of various sizes)
genus Liparis (genus of terrestrial and epiphytic orchids; pantropical to temperate)
genus Listera; Listera (genus of terrestrial orchids having usually a single pair of broad shining leaves near the middle of the stem; found in temperate Asia and North America and Europe)
genus Malaxis; Malaxis (large genus of largely terrestrial orchids with one or a few plicate leaves and slender spikes or tiny mostly green flowers; cosmopolitan)
genus Masdevallia (large genus of tropical American mostly epiphytic orchids whose flowers have sepals fused at the base forming a tube; includes orchids sometimes placed in genera Dracula and Dryadella and Scaphosepalum)
genus Maxillaria (large genus of tropical American epiphytic orchids with persistent leathery leaves and single-flowered scapes)
genus Miltonia; Miltonia (genus of tropical American orchids)
genus Odontoglossum (large and important genus of tropical American mostly epiphytic orchids; some of the most widely grown species are often placed in other genera)
genus Oncidium (large genus of showy epiphytic or lithophytic or terrestrial orchids of tropical and subtropical America)
genus Ophrys; Ophrys (a hardy genus of terrestrial orchids of Europe and northern Africa and western Asia)
genus Paphiopedilum; Paphiopedilum (horticulturally important genus of mainly terrestrial orchids including many hybrids; southeastern Asia and Indonesia to Philippines and Solomon Islands; Paphiopedilum species sometimes included in genus Cypripedium)
genus Phaius (genus of Asiatic and Australian terrestrial orchids)
genus Phalaenopsis; Phalaenopsis (genus of ornamental epiphytic orchids of Asia and Australia)
genus Pholidota; Pholidota (genus of mostly epiphytic orchids of Indonesia and the western Pacific)
genus Phragmipedium; Phragmipedium (genus of tropical American orchid species often included in genus Cypripedium or Paphiopedilum and Selenipedium: lady slippers)
genus Platanthera; Platanthera (herbaceous terrestrial orchids of temperate northern and southern hemispheres)
genus Plectorrhiza; Plectorrhiza (small genus of Australian orchids)
genus Pleione; Pleione (small genus of dwarf orchids; India to Thailand and Taiwan)
genus Pleurothallis (large genus of epiphytic or lithophytic orchids of tropical America)
genus Pogonia (small but widely distributed genus of orchids closely related to genus Cleistes;: of damp or boggy areas of north temperate zone)
genus Psychopsis; Psychopsis (epiphytic orchids of Central and South America formerly included in genus Oncidium)
genus Pterostylis; Pterostylis (genus of terrestrial orchids of Australia and New Zealand and western Pacific)
genus Rhyncostylis; Rhyncostylis (genus of epiphytic orchids of tropical Asia)
genus Sarcochilus; Sarcochilus (diminutive epiphytic or lithophytic orchids with clumped short-stemmed foliage and arching racemes of colorful flowers; Australia and Polynesia to southeastern Asia)
genus Scaphosepalum; Scaphosepalum (comprises some tropical American species usually placed in genus Masdevallia: diminutive plants with small flowers carried on one scape)
genus Schomburgkia; Schomburgkia (genus of tropical American epiphytic orchids with showy racemose flowers)
genus Selenipedium; Selenipedium (genus of tall reedlike tropical American orchids; includes species with pods used locally as a substitute for vanilla)
genus Sobralia (genus of tropical American orchids)
genus Spiranthes; Spiranthes (large cosmopolitan genus of white-flowered terrestrial orchids)
genus Stanhopea (genus of tropical American epiphytic orchids)
genus Stelis (genus of small caespitose orchids of tropical America)
genus Trichoceros; Trichoceros (small genus of small epiphytic or terrestrial orchids of tropical South America)
genus Vanda (genus of showy epiphytic orchids of Himalayas to Malaysia)
genus Vanilla (large genus of tropical climbing orchids; Old and New Worlds)
Burmannia; genus Burmannia (type genus of the Burmanniaceae; slender herbs of warm regions with leaves resembling scales and flowers with a three-angled or three-winged perianth)
Aegilops; genus Aegilops (goat grass)
Agropyron; genus Agropyron (perennial grasses of temperate and cool regions: wheatgrass; dog grass)
Alopecurus; genus Alopecurus (annual or perennial grasses including decorative and meadow species as well as notorious agricultural weeds)
Andropogon; genus Andropogon (tall annual or perennial grasses with spikelike racemes; warm regions)
Arundo; genus Arundo (any of several coarse tall perennial grasses of most warm areas: reeds)
Bromus; genus Bromus (a genus of grasses of the family Gramineae)
Bouteloua; genus Bouteloua (forage grasses)
Buchloe; genus Buchloe (buffalo grass)
Calamagrostis; genus Calamagrostis (reed grass)
Cenchrus; genus Cenchrus (a genus of grasses of the family Gramineae that have burs)
Chloris; genus Chloris (tufted or perennial or annual grasses having runners: finger grass; windmill grass)
Cortaderia; genus Cortaderia (tall ornamental grasses of South America and New Zealand and New Guinea: pampas grass)
Cynodon; genus Cynodon (creeping perennial grasses of tropical and southern Africa)
Dactylis; genus Dactylis (a monocotyledonous grass of the family Gramineae (has only one species))
Dactyloctenium; genus Dactyloctenium (a monocotyledonous genus of the family Gramineae)
Digitaria; genus Digitaria (crab grass; finger grass)
Echinochloa; genus Echinochloa (annual or perennial succulent grasses of warm regions)
Eleusine; genus Eleusine (annual and perennial grasses of savannas and upland grasslands)
Elymus; genus Elymus (tall tufted perennial grasses (such as lyme grass or wild rye))
Eragrostis; genus Eragrostis (annual or perennial grasses of tropics and subtropics)
Erianthus; genus Erianthus (genus of reedlike grasses having spikes crowded in a panicle covered with long silky hairs)
Festuca; genus Festuca (a genus of tufted perennial grasses of the family Gramineae)
genus Glyceria; Glyceria (manna grass)
genus Holcus; Holcus (a genus of Old World grasses widely cultivated in America)
genus Hordeum; Hordeum (annual to perennial grasses of temperate northern hemisphere and South America: barley)
genus Leymus; Leymus (genus that in some classifications overlaps the genus Elymus)
genus Lolium; Lolium (darnel; ryegrass)
genus Muhlenbergia; Muhlenbergia (a genus of grasses of the family Gramineae grown in America and Asia)
genus Oryza; Oryza (rice)
genus Oryzopsis; Oryzopsis (rice grass)
genus Panicum; Panicum (panic grass)
genus Paspalum (a genus of perennial grasses of warm regions)
genus Pennisetum; Pennisetum (a genus of Old World grasses)
genus Phalaris; Phalaris (a genus of grasses with broad leaves and a dense spike of flowers)
genus Phleum; Phleum (grasses native to temperate regions)
genus Phragmites; Phragmites (reeds of marshes and riversides in tropical or temperate regions)
genus Poa; Poa (chiefly perennial grasses of cool temperate regions)
genus Saccharum; Saccharum (tall perennial reedlike grass originally of southeastern Asia: sugarcane)
genus Schizachyrium; Schizachyrium (overlaps the genus Andropogon)
genus Secale; Secale (cereal grass widely cultivated for its grain: rye)
genus Setaria; Setaria (annual or perennial grasses of warm regions: bristlegrasses)
genus Sorghum; Sorghum (annual or perennial tropical and subtropical cereal grasses: sorghum)
genus Spartina; Spartina (grass of freshwater swamps and salt marshes of Europe, Africa, America, and South Atlantic islands)
genus Sporobolus; Sporobolus (cosmopolitan annual and perennial grasses (as dropseed or rush grass))
genus Stenotaphrum; Stenotaphrum (lawn grasses)
genus Triticum; Triticum (annual cereal grasses from Mediterranean area; widely cultivated in temperate regions)
genus Zea; Zea (corn)
genus Zizania; Zizania (wild rice)
genus Zoisia; genus Zoysia; Zoisia (lawn grasses native to southeastern Asia and New Zealand; grown especially in warm regions)
Bambusa; genus Bambusa (tall tender clumping bamboos)
Arundinaria; genus Arundinaria (North American bamboo)
Dendrocalamus; genus Dendrocalamus (giant clump-forming bamboos)
genus Phyllostachys; Phyllostachys (medium and large bamboos)
Cyperus; genus Cyperus (type genus of Cyperaceae; grasslike rhizomatous herbs; cosmopolitan except very cold regions)
Carex; genus Carex (large genus of plants found in damp woodlands and bogs and ditches or at water margins: sedges)
Eriophorum; genus Eriophorum (cotton grass)
genus Scirpus; Scirpus (rhizomatous perennial grasslike herbs)
Eleocharis; genus Eleocharis (sedges having dense spikes of flowers and leaves reduced to basal sheaths)
genus Pandanus (type genus of the Pandanaceae (as screw pines))
genus Typha; Typha (reed maces; cattails)
genus Sparganium; Sparganium (type and sole genus of Sparganiaceae; marsh or aquatic herbs of temperate regions)
genus Haemodorum; Haemodorum (type genus of family Haemodoraceae)
Anigozanthus; genus Anigozanthus (genus of monocotyledonous plants with curious woolly flowers on sturdy stems above a fan of sword-shaped leaves; includes kangaroo's paw and Australian sword lily; sometimes placed in family Amaryllidaceae)
genus Canna (type and sole genus of the Cannaceae: perennial lily-like herbs of New World tropics)
genus Maranta (herbs of tropical America)
genus Musa; Musa (type genus of the Musaceae: bananas)
Ensete; genus Ensete (Old World tropical herbs: Abyssinian bananas)
genus Strelitzia; Strelitzia (small genus of large perennial evergreen herbs having leaves resembling those of banana plants; sometimes placed in family Musaceae)
genus Ravenala (woody tropical plants with tall trunks; sometimes placed in family Musaceae)
genus Zingiber; Zingiber (tropical Asiatic and Polynesian perennial plants: ginger)
Curcuma; genus Curcuma (tropical Asiatic perennial herbs)
Elettaria; genus Elettaria (cardamom)
Acrocomia; genus Acrocomia (Central and South American feather palms)
genus Areca (a monocotyledonous genus of palm trees)
Attalea; genus Attalea (unarmed feather palms of central and northern South America)
Borassus; genus Borassus (palmyra)
genus Calamus (distinctive often spiny-stemmed palms found as climbers in tropical and subtropical forest)
Caryota; genus Caryota (fishtail palms)
Ceroxylon; genus Ceroxylon (wax palms)
Cocos; genus Cocos (coconut palms)
Copernicia; genus Copernicia (slow-growing tropical fan palms)
genus Corozo (a monocotyledonous genus of tropical American palm trees)
Corypha; genus Corypha (large fan palms of tropical Asia to Australia)
Elaeis; genus Elaeis (oil palms)
Euterpe; genus Euterpe (a monocotyledonous genus of graceful palm trees in tropical America)
genus Metroxylon; Metroxylon (a genus of Malayan pinnate-leaved palm trees that flower and fruit once and then die)
genus Nipa; genus Nypa; Nipa; Nypa (monotypic genus of palms of Australasia)
genus Orbignya; Orbignya (palms of southern Mexico to northern South America: babassu palm)
genus Phoenicophorium; phoenicophorium (latanier palm)
genus Phoenix; phoenix (a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa)
genus Raffia; genus Raphia; Raffia; Raphia (feather palm of tropical Africa and Madagascar and Central and South America widely grown for commercial purposes)
genus Rhapis; Rhapis (genus of small clump-forming fan palms of China and Japan)
genus Roystonea; Roystonea (a monocotyledonous genus of West Indian feather palms)
genus Sabal; Sabal (American dwarf fan palms)
genus Serenoa; Serenoa (one species: saw palmetto)
genus Thrinax; Thrinax (small to medium-sized fan palms)
genus Xyris; Xyris (chiefly American marsh plants, having usually yellow flowers)
genus Commelina (type genus of the Commelinaceae; large genus of herbs of branching or creeping habit: day flower; widow's tears)
genus Tradescantia; Tradescantia (spiderworts)
Ananas; genus Ananas (a genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples))
Bromelia (the type genus of the family Bromeliaceae which includes tropical American plants with deeply cleft calyx)
genus Tillandsia; Tillandsia (large genus of epiphytic or terrestrial sparse-rooting tropical plants usually forming dense clumps or pendant masses)
genus Mayaca; Mayaca (small genus of delicate mossy bog plants having white or violet flowers)
Eriocaulon; genus Eriocaulon (type genus of the Eriocaulaceae: rushlike aquatic or marginal perennials usually found in shallow waters of acid lakes and pools and bogs)
genus Pontederia; Pontederia (pickerelweed)
Eichhornia; genus Eichhornia (water hyacinth; water orchid)
genus Heteranthera; Heteranthera (mud plantains)
genus Naias; genus Najas; Naias; Najas (sole genus of the family Naiadaceae)
Alisma; genus Alisma (small genus of aquatic or semiaquatic plants)
genus Sagittaria; Sagittaria (genus of aquatic herbs of temperate and tropical regions having sagittate or hastate leaves and white scapose flowers)
genus Hydrocharis; Hydrocharis (frogbit)
genus Hydrilla (one species)
genus Limnobium; Limnobium (American frogbit)
ditchmoss; Elodea; genus Elodea; pondweed (submerged freshwater perennials)
Egeria; genus Egeria (small genus of dioecious tropical aquatic plants)
genus Vallisneria; Vallisneria (eelgrass; eel grass)
genus Potamogeton; Potamogeton (a large genus of aquatic herbs found in quiet waters in temperate regions; leaves usually float on the water)
genus Groenlandia; Groenlandia (a monocotyledonous genus of the family Potamogetonaceae)
genus Triglochin; Triglochin (perennial or annual bog or marsh plants; includes arrow grass)
genus Zannichellia; Zannichellia (horned pondweed: completely submerged herbs; in some classifications included in Potamogetonaceae)
genus Zostera; Zostera ((or in some classifications family Zosteraceae) small genus of widely distributed marine plants)
Holonyms ("monocot genus" is a member of...):
class Liliopsida; class Monocotyledonae; class Monocotyledones; Liliopsida; Monocotyledonae; Monocotyledones (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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