monanthous 



Monoe'pigynia 



Prantl's word for a sporangium 

 when enclosed by a hood-like in- 

 dusium ; monan'thous (avdos, a 

 flower), one-flowered ; mon'arch 

 (apx?), beginning), applied to an 

 xylem-bundle which consists of one 

 protoxylem-group ; ~ Bun' die, one 

 in which there is only one strand ; 

 monari'nus (appTjv, male), Necker's 

 expression for monandrous ; Mon- 

 as'ter (dcrrrip, a star), in nuclear 

 division the mother-star, the 

 chromosomes forming a ring round 

 the central spindle ; Monax'on 

 (#wc, an axle), when the two 

 transverse axes of an organ or or- 

 ganism are equal ; mone'cious = 

 MONOECIOUS ; Monem'bryony (fyi- 

 /3/3UOJ', an embryo), the production 

 of one embryo only; adj. monem- 

 oryon'ic. 



Mon'grel, a cross or hybrid. 



moiiil'iform, moniliform'is (monile, a 

 necklace, forma, shape), necklace- 

 shaped ; like a string of beads. 



Mon'ism (^OPOS, one), employed by 

 L. H. Bailey for "the doctrine of 

 oneness ; the supposition that all 

 phenomena and all forms of life 

 are derived from the unfolding or 

 evolution of one single principle 

 and substance. " 



Monob'asis (/j.6vos, one, /3a<m, base), 

 when the root is reduced to a small 

 unbranched portion, as though it 

 were only the base of the stem ; 

 Monoblas'tus (/SXaoros, a shoot or 

 bud), used of Lichen-spores when 

 possessing a single cell ; Monocaro'- 

 tin ( + CAROTIN) a lipochrome pig- 

 ment allied to Carotin, the colour- 

 ing of the root of the carrot ; Mon'- 

 ocarp (Kap-rros, fruit), an annual or 

 other plant that flowers but once 

 (Crozier) ; monocarpel'lary, com- 

 posed of one carpel only ; monocar'- 

 pic, Dien'nial- ~, a biennial plant, 

 peren'nial- ~, a plant which lives 

 many years before fruiting and 

 perishing ; monocar'pian, monocar- 

 pia'nus, monocar'picus, monocar'- 

 pous, only fruiting once ; mono- 

 cel'lular (cdlula, a little cell), 



cited by Crozier for UNICELLULAB ; 

 monoceph'alous, -lus (Ke<pa\*i, a 

 head), bearing a single head or 

 capitulum ; monochas'ial (xcicns, 

 separation), a cyme with one main 

 axis; Monoch'asy, auniparouscyme, 

 either pure, or resulting from the 

 reduction of cymes (Urban) ; Mono- 

 chlamyd'eae (xXa/^s, a mantle), a 

 large division of Phanerogams 

 which have only one set of lloral 

 envelopes ; monocnlamyd'eous, 

 -deus, having only one kind of 

 perianth ; monochro'rnic (xpupa., 

 colour), of one tint, unicolorous ; 

 monocli'nous, -mu*, monoclin'ian 

 (K\ivrj, a bed), (1) hermaphrodite, 

 having both stamens and pistils in 

 the same flower ; (2) applied to the 

 capitula of Composites which have 

 only hermaphrodite florets ; Mono- 

 cotyle'don (KOTvXrjouii', a hollow), a 

 plant having but one cotyledon or 

 seed-lobe; Monocct'ylae, was sug- 

 gested by L. Ward as a shortened 

 term ; monocotyle'donous, with a 

 single seed-lobe, as grasses and 

 palms ; monocy'clic (KVK\OS, a cir- 

 cle), (1) when the members of a 

 floral series are in one whorl, as 

 the calyx, corolla, etc.; (2) annual 

 plants ; monodichlamyd'eous (5i, 

 twice, xAa/Aiis, a mantle), having 

 either one or both sets of floral en- 

 velopes ; monody'namous (5v'va/j.is, 

 power), with one stamen much 

 longer than the others ; Monoe'cia 

 (OIKOS, a house), a Linnean class 

 characterised by having flowers 

 with the sexes separate, but on 

 the same plant ; monoe'cious, -cms, 

 the stamens and pistils in separate 

 flowers, but borne on the same in- 

 dividual ; <~ Homog'amy, fertiliza- 

 tion from another inflorescence 

 of the same plant (Delpino) ; 

 monoec'iously polyg'amous, hav- 

 ing hermaphrodite and unisexual 

 flowers on the same specimen ; 

 Monoe'cism, the state of pos- 

 sessing monoecious flowers ; Mo- 

 noepigyn'ia (eirl, upon, ywij, a 

 woman), a class in Jussieu's system 



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