monanthous 



Monoepigynia 



Prantl's word for a sporangium 

 when enclosed by a hood-like in- 

 dusium ; monan'thous (avdos, a 

 flower), one-flowered ; mon'arch 

 (apxrj, beginning), applied to an 

 xylem-bundle which consists of one 

 protoxylem- group ; ~> Bun' die, one 

 in which there is only one strand ; 

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

 expression for monandrous ; Mon- 

 as'ter (aa-Typ, a star), in nuclear 

 division the mother-star, the 

 chromosomes forming a ring round 

 the central spindle ; Monax'on 

 (Afav, an axle), when the two 

 transverse axes of an organ or or- 

 ganism are equal ; mone'cious = 

 MONOECIOUS ; Monem'bryony (fyt- 

 fipvov, an embryo), the production 

 of one embryo only ; adj. monem- 

 bryonlc. 



Mon'grel, a cross or hybrid. 



moniTiform, moniliform'is (monile, a 

 necklace, forma, shape), necklace- 

 shaped ; like a string of beads. 



Monism (fj.6vos, 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 (fjibvos, one, /Sdo-is, base), 

 when the root is reduced to a small 

 unbranched portion, as though it 

 were only the base of the stem ; 

 Monoblas'tus (/SXaards, 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 (/capTros, fruit), an annual or 

 other plant that flowers but once 

 (Crozier) ; monocarpel'lary, com- 

 posed 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, monocar- 

 pia'nus, monocar'picus, monocar'- 

 pous, only fruiting once ; mono- 

 cellular (cellida, a little cell), 



cited by Crozier for UNICELLULAR ; 

 monoceph'alous, -lus (/ce^aX-?;, a 

 head), bearing a single head or 

 capitulum ; monocnas'ial (xdffis, 

 separation), a cyme with one main 

 axis; Monoch'asy, a uniparous cy me, 

 either pure, or resulting from the 

 reduction of cymes (Urban) ; Mono- 

 chlamyd'eae (xXa/Ai>s, a mantle), a 

 large division of Phanerogams 

 which have only one set of floral 

 envelopes ; monochlamyd'eous, 

 -deus, having only one kind of 

 perianth ; monochro'mic (x/>cDjua, 

 colour), of one tint, unicolorous ; 

 monocli'nous, -mus, monoclin'ian 

 (K\tvrj, 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 (/coruX^Scb*', a hollow), a 

 plant having but one cotyledon or 

 seed-lobe; Monocot'ylae, was sug- 

 gested by L. Ward as a shortened 

 term ; monocotyle'donous, with a 

 single seed-lobe, as grasses and 

 palms ; monocy'clic (/ctf/cXos, a cir- 

 cle), (1) when the members of a 

 floral series are in one whorl, as 

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

 plants ; inonodichlamyd'eous (5i, 

 twice, xXa/*i>s, a mantle), having 

 either one or both sets of floral en- 

 velopes ; monody'namous (Sv'va^, 

 power), with one stamen much 

 longer than the others ; Monoe'cia 

 (el/cos, a house), a Linnean class 

 characterised by having flowers 

 with the sexes separate, but on 

 the same plant ; monoe'cious, -cius, 

 the stamens and pistils in separate 

 flowers, but borne on the same in- 

 dividual ; r- 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 (tvl, upon, yvrii, a 

 woman), a class in Jussieu's system 



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