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MonooMamydeae 



Mon- {iJ.6vos, one), in Greek com- 

 pounds = one ; monac'mic {olk/j.^, a 

 point), applied to neritic Diatoms 

 having but one maximum in the 

 year ; ef. diacmic ; MonacrorM'zae 

 {&Kpos, at the end; ^i^a, a root), 

 plants whose roots are derived 

 from a single mother-cell, as 

 most vascular cryptogams, ex- 

 cept Lycopodium and Isoetes (Van 

 Tieghem) ; adj. monao'rorhize ; 

 Mou''ad, occasionally used for Zoo- 

 spore ; Monaderphia {aSeXcphs, 

 brother), a Linnean class in which 

 the anthers are united by their 

 filaments into a single brother- 

 hood ; adj . monaderphian, mona- 

 del'plious ; monan'der, Necker's 

 term for monan'drian, monan'drous 

 (av^p, ai/Bphs, a man), with one 

 stamen ; monan'dreous, having but 

 one perfect stamen, as most orchids 

 (S. Moore); Monan'dria, a Linnean 

 class, with one-stamened flowers; 

 Monan'dry, the condition in ques- 

 tion ; monan'gic {ayye7ov, a vessel), 

 (1) Prantl's word for a sporangium 

 Avhen enclosed by a hood-like 

 indusium ; (2) used of a sorus con- 

 taining one sporangium ; monan'gial 

 is a synonym; monan'thous {&vdos, 

 a flower), one-flowered ; mon'arcli 

 {apxv, beginning), applied to a 

 xylem-bundle which consists of one 

 protoxylem-group ; --' Bun'dle, one 

 in which there is only one strand ; 

 monari'nus {ipprfv, male), Necker's 

 expression for monandrous ; Mon- 

 as'ter (ao-rrjp, a star), in nuclear 

 division the mother-star, the 

 chromosomes forming a ring round 

 the central spindle ; monax'ial Co- 

 axial), applied to a nuclear spindle 

 of one axis, but hot necessarily end- 

 ing in fixed points (Hof) ; Monax'on 

 (A|coi/, an axle), when the two 

 transverse axes of an organ or or- 

 ganism are equal ; mone^cions = 

 MONOECIOUS ; Monem'bryony (e/x- 

 fipvou, an embryo), the production 

 of one embryo only ; adj. monem- 

 bryon'ic ; mouer'gic, an abbreviation 

 of monergid'ic, consisting of one 



energid, that is, one unit or nucleus 

 (Goebel). 

 mon'eroid, like the genus Moncra, 

 in which the protoplasm forms 

 the whole structureless body of 

 the fully developed organism, 

 which is devoid of a nucleus ; a 

 presumed protistoid body. 

 Mon'grel, a cross or hybrid, 

 monirifomi, moniliforni'is {monile, a 

 necklace; forma, shape), necklace- 

 shaped; like a string of beads. 

 Mon'ism {tJL6vos, 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 {ix6vos, one ; ^aau, base), 

 when the root is reduced to a small 

 Unbranched portion, as though it 

 were only the base of the stem ; adj. 

 monobas'ic ; Monoblaste'sis, used by 

 Schneider forMESOBLASTESis ; Mono- 

 blas'tus {^Kaarls, a shoot or bud), 

 used of Lichen-spores when pos- 

 sessing a single cell ; Monocaro'tin 

 ( + Carotin), a lipochrome pigment 

 allied to Carotin, the colouring of 

 the root of the carrot ; Mon'ocarp 

 {Kapirhs, fruit), an annual or other 

 plant that flowers but once (Crozier) ; 

 monocarp^ean = monocarpic ; mono- 

 carp'ellary, composed of one carpel 

 only; monocar'pic, bien'nial- '^ , 

 a biennial plant ; peren'nial- -^ , a 

 plant which lives many years before 

 fruiting and perishing ; monocar'- 

 pian, moiiocarpia'mis, Dwnocar' pi- 

 ens, monocar'pous, only fruiting 

 once ; monoceriular {celhcla, a little 

 cell), cited by Crozier for unicellu- 

 lar ; monoceph'alous, -lus {K€<pa\^, 

 a head), bearing a single head or 

 capitulum ; monochas'ial {x<^<ris, 

 separation), a cyme with one main 

 axis ; Monochas'ium, Monoch'asy, a 

 uniparous cyme, either pure, or t;b- 

 suiting from the reduction of cymes 

 (Urban) ; MonocMamyd'eae (x^afivs, 

 a mantle), a large division of Phan- 

 erogams which have only one set of 



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