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"Section M, N, and O"

, the species of the genus Monas, and
allied genera.


4. (Biol.) A simple, minute organism;
a primary cell, germ, or plastid.


5. (Chem.) An atom or radical whose
valence is one, or which can combine with, be replaced by, or
exchanged for, one atom of hydrogen.


Monad deme (Biol.), in tectology, a
unit of the first order of individuality.



||Mon`a*da"ri*a
(m&obreve;n`&adot;*dā"r&ibreve;*&adot;), n.
pl.
[NL. See Monad.] (Zoöl.) The
Infusoria.


||Mon`a*del"phi*a (?), n. pl. [NL.,
from Gr. mo`nos alone + 'adelfo`s brother.]
(Bot.) A Linnæan class of plants having the stamens
united into a tube, or ring, by the filaments, as in the Mallow
family.


{ Mon`a*del"phi*an (?), Mon`a*del"phous (?), }
a. [Cf. F. monadelphie.] (Bot.)
Of or pertaining to the Monadelphia; having the stamens united
in one body by the filaments.


{ Mo*nad"ic (?), Mo*nad"ic*al (?), }
a.


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