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- English Word Monkey-pot Definition The fruit of two South American trees (Lecythis Ollaria, and L. Zabucajo), which have for their fruit large, pot-shaped, woody capsules containing delicious nuts, and opening almost explosively by a circular lid at the top. Vases and pots are made of this capsule.
- English Word Monkeys Definition of Monkey
- English Word Monkeytail Definition A short, round iron bar or lever used in naval gunnery.
- English Word Monkfish Definition The angel fish (Squatina).
- English Word Monkfish Definition The angler (Lophius).
- English Word Monkflower Definition A name of certain curious orchids which bear three kinds of flowers formerly referred to three genera, but now ascertained to be sexually different forms of the same genus (Catasetum tridentatum, etc.).
- English Word Monkhood Definition The character or condition of a monk.
- English Word Monkhood Definition Monks, regarded collectively.
- English Word Monking Definition Monkish.
- English Word Monkish Definition Like a monk, or pertaining to monks; monastic; as, monkish manners; monkish dress; monkish solitude.
- English Word Monkly Definition Like, or suitable to, a monk.
- English Word Monkshood Definition A plant of the genus Aconitum; aconite. See Aconite.
- English Word Mono Definition The black howler of Central America (Mycetes villosus).
- English Word Mono- Definition Alt. of Mon-
- English Word Monobasic Definition Capable of being neutralized by a univalent base or basic radical; having but one acid hydrogen atom to be replaced; -- said of acids; as, acetic, nitric, and hydrochloric acids are monobasic.
- English Word Monocarbonic Definition Containing one carboxyl group; as, acetic acid is a monocarbonic acid.
- English Word Monocardian Definition Having a single heart, as fishes and amphibians.
- English Word Monocardian Definition An animal having a single heart.
- English Word Monocarp Definition A monocarpic plant.
- English Word Monocarpellary Definition Consisting of a single carpel, as the fruit of the pea, cherry, and almond.
- English Word Monocarpic Definition Alt. of Monocarpous
- English Word Monocarpous Definition Bearing fruit but once, and dying after fructification, as beans, maize, mustard, etc.
- English Word Monocephalous Definition Having a solitary head; -- said of unbranched composite plants.
- English Word Monoceros Definition A one-horned creature; a unicorn; a sea monster with one horn.
- English Word Monoceros Definition The Unicorn, a constellation situated to the east Orion.
- English Word Monochlamydeous Definition Having a single floral envelope, that is, a calyx without a corolla, or, possibly, in rare cases, a corolla without a calyx.
- English Word Monochord Definition An instrument for experimenting upon the mathematical relations of musical sounds. It consists of a single string stretched between two bridges, one or both of which are movable, and which stand upon a graduated rule for the purpose of readily changing and measuring the length of the part of the string between them.
- English Word Monochromatic Definition Consisting of one color, or presenting rays of light of one color only.
- English Word Monochrome Definition A painting or drawing in a single color; a picture made with a single color.
- English Word Monochromic Definition Made, or done, with a single color; as, a monochromic picture.