It should be noted that Monocotyledonous plants make up one huge slice of the worlds cereal/ edible crops, the staple diet of literally Billions of people and animals!
Dicotyledons:See the pictorial link showing the differences between mono and dicots - PDF file so you need Acrobat to view it.
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In Monocotyledons, the seed contains an embryo with one seed-leaf. The plant has narrow leaves with straight parallel veins.
In Dicotyledons, the seed contains an embryo with two seed-leaves. Has broad leaves with branched veins forming a network.
Monocotyledons have jointed stems, smooth stems, have long slender leaves, have seeds that are fused together and have fibrous roots.
Dicotyledons have stems are covered in bark or smooth, have broad leaves, have seeds that can be evenly divided and have tap roots.
Plants are often either sorted as monocotyledons and dicotyledons. Monocots only have one cotyledon, while dicots have two.