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A GLOSSARY OF TERMS 



which possess the ganglionic sys- 

 tem of nerves only 5 as mollusks 

 and insects. 



MONOFERIGY'NIA. fr. gr. monos, sin- 

 gle ; peri, around : gune, pistil. 

 Name of a class of plants. 



MONOPETA'LE.E. fr. gr. monos, sin- 

 gle ; petalon, a petal. Name of a 

 class of plants. 



MONOPE'TALOUS. Consisting of one 

 petal. 



MONOPHYL'LOUS. fr. gr. phullon, a 

 leaf. Monosepalous : gamosepalous. 

 Cohesion of the sepals. 



MONOSE'PALOUS. fr. gr. monos, one, 

 and sepal. Consisting of one se- 

 pal. 



MONOSPERXA'TIC. ) fr. gr. monos, sin- 



MONOSPE'RMOUS. gle ; sperma, 

 seed. Having one seed. 



MONOTHA'LAMOUS. fr. gr. lhalamot, 

 a chamber. Having a single 

 chamber or cavity ; applied to 

 shells. 



MONOTRE'MATA. fr. gr. monos, sin- 

 gle ; trema, a perforation or hole. 

 The name of a family of ovo- 

 vivi'parous mammals found in 

 New Holland. 



MONSOO'NS. fr. Malay, mooseem, a 

 season. Winds which blow six 

 months in one direction, and in 

 the opposite direction for the same 

 time, changing periodically. 



MONSTER. Any organic body which 

 is unusual in the size, or number 

 of its parts. 



MONTA'NUS. Lat. Mountainous. 



Relating to mountains. 



MORAI'NES. Longitudinal deposits 

 of stony detritus found at the 

 bases, and along the edges of all 

 the great glaciers, (p. 131, Book 

 viii). 



MORDANT. That which enables ve- 

 eetable matter or tissue to receive 

 dyes or colouring matter. 



MORPHO'LOGT. fr. gr. morphe, form ; 

 logos, a description. The history 

 of the modifications of form which 

 the same organ undergoes in dif- 

 ferent animals or plants. 



MORRHUA. Systematic name of the 

 cod -fish. 



MO'RUS. Lat. A mulberry tree. 



MOSAIC. fr. gr. mouseion, mousion, 

 mosion, which signify the same 

 thing in the Greek of the middle 

 ages, as the musivum opus, of the 

 Latins, a museum, a place de- 

 signed for study. Some add, that 

 it is because cabinets or muse- 

 ums were ornamented at first 

 with works of this kind. A work, 

 in which, by means of small 

 stones and little pieces of differ- 

 ently coloured glass, figures or 

 even entire pictures are repre- 

 sented. 



MOSASAU'RUS. From Meuse, name 

 of a river, and the Gr. sauros, a 

 lizard. A genus of fossil reptiles, 

 (p. 75, Book viii). 



MOSCHA'TUS. Lat. Belonging or re- 

 lating to musk. Perfumed with 

 musk. 



Moscm'FERtrs. fr. lat. moschus, fero, 

 I bear. Musk-bearing. 



MOSCHUS. fr. gr. moschos, musk. A 

 genus of mammals from which 

 musk is obtained. 



MOSSES. Crytogamous parasites of 

 the family of Lycopode'nese. 



MOTACILLA. Lat. A wag-tail. 



MOTHER OF PEARL. Nacre of cer- 

 tain shells, which is composed of 

 alternate layers of coagulated al- 

 bumen and carbonate of lime. 



MOTI'LITT. The power of moving. 



MOTIVE. fr. Jat. moveo, I move. 

 That which moves or causes mo- 

 tion. 



MOTOR. fr. lat. moveo, I move. That 

 which causes motion. A mover. 



MOTTLED. Marked with blotches 

 of colour of unequal intensity, 

 passing insensibly into each other. 



MOU'ETTE. Fr. A sea-mew, a gull. 



MOULT. To change the feathers ; 

 to cast the skin. 



MOULTING Changing of the plu- 

 mage, which occurs naturally and 

 periodically. 



MOUNTAIN. Any earthy elevation 



