Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Monocotyle

Mon″o‐co‐tyle (?), a. [Cf. F. monocotyle.] (Bot.) Monocotyledonous.

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Monocotyledon

Mon′o‐cot′y‐le″don (?), n. [Mono- + cotyledon: cf. F. monocotylédone.] (Bot.) A plant with only one cotyledon, or seed lobe.☞ The plural, monocotyledons, is used as the name of ...

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Monocotyledonous

Mon′o‐cot′y‐le″don‐ous (?), a. [Cf. F. monocotylédoné.] (Bot.) Having only one cotyledon, seed lobe, or seminal leaf. Lindley.

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Monocracy

Mo‐noc″ra‐cy (?), n. [Mono- + -cracy, as in democracy.] Government by a single person; undivided rule. Sydney Smith.

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Monocrat

Mon″o‐crat (?), n. One who governs alone.

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Monocrotic

Mon′o‐crot″ic (?), a.(Physiol.) Of, pertaining to, or showing, monocrotism; as, a monocrotic pulse; a pulse of the monocrotic type.

4651

Monocrotism

Mo‐noc″ro‐tism (?), n. [Gr. μόνοσ alone + � a beating.] (Physiol.) That condition of the pulse in which the pulse curve or sphygmogram shows but a single crest, the dicrotic ele...

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Monocular

Mo‐noc″u‐lar (?), a. [L. monoculus; Gr. μόνοσ single + L. oculus eye: cf. F. monoculaire.] 1. Having only one eye; with one eye only; as, monocular vision.2. Adapted to be used ...

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Monocule

Mon″o‐cule (mŏn″ō̍‐kūl), n. [See Monocular.] (Zoöl.) A small crustacean with one median eye.

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Monoculous

Mo‐noc″u‐lous (?), a. Monocular. Glanvill.

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Monocystic

Mon′o‐cys″tic (?), a. [See Mono-, and Cyst.] (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to a division (Monocystidea) of Gregarinida, in which the body consists of one sac.

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Monodactylous

Mon′o‐dac″tyl‐ous (?), a. [Gr. μονοδάκτυλοσ; μόνοσ single + δάκτυλοσ finger: cf. F. monodactyle.] (Zoöl.) Having but one finger or claw.

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Monodelph

{ Mon″o‐delph (?), Mon′o‐del″phi‐an (?), } n.(Zoöl.) One of the Monodelphia.

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Monodelphia

‖Mon′o‐del″phi‐a (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. μόνοσ single + δελφύσ the womb.] (Zoöl.) The group that includes all ordinary or placental mammals; the Placentalia. See Mammalia.

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Monodelphic

{ Mon′o‐del″phic (?), Mon′o‐del″phous (?), } a.(Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Monodelphia.

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Monodic

{ Mo‐nod″ic (?), Mo‐nod″ic‐al (?), } a. 1. Belonging to a monody.2. (Mus.) (a) For one voice; monophonic. (b) Homophonic; — applied to music in which the melody is confined to o...

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Monodimetric

Mon′o‐di‐met″ric (?), a. [Mono- + dimetric.] (Crystallog.) Dimetric.

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Monodist

Mon″o‐dist (?), n. A writer of a monody.

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Monodrama

{ Mon″o‐dra′ma (?), Mon″o‐drame (?), } n. [Mono- + Gr. � drama.] A drama acted, or intended to be acted, by a single person.

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Monodramatic

Mon′o‐dra‐mat″ic (?), a. Pertaining to a monodrama.

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Monody

Mon″o‐dy (?), n.; pl.Monodies (#). [L. monodia, Gr. �, fr. � singing alone; μόνοσ single + � song: cf. F. monodie. See Ode.] A species of poem of a mournful character, in which ...

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Monodynamic

Mon′o‐dy‐nam″ic (?), a. [Mono- + dynamic.] Possessing but one capacity or power. “Monodynamic men.” De Quincey.

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Monodynamism

Mon′o‐dy″na‐mism (?), n. The theory that the various forms of activity in nature are manifestations of the same force. G. H. Lewes.

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Monœcia

‖Mo‐nœ″ci‐a (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. μόνοσ single + � house.] (Bot.) A Linnæan class of plants, whose stamens and pistils are in distinct flowers in the same plant.

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Monœcian

Mo‐nœ″cian (?), a. 1. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the Monœcia; monœcious. — n. One of the Monœcia.2. (Zoöl.) A monœcious animal, as certain mollusks.

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Monœcious

Mo‐nœ″cious (?), a.(Biol.) Having the sexes united in one individual, as when male and female flowers grow upon the same individual plant; hermaphrodite; — opposed to diœcious.

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Monœcism

Mo‐nœ″cism (?), n.(Biol.) The state or condition of being monœcious.