Unona (unona)

[NL. (Linnæus filius, 1781); altered from NL. Anona, the name of a related genus.] A genus of plants, of the order Anonaceæ, type of the tribe Unoneæ. It differs from Asimina, the papaw of the United States, in its commonly moniliform fruit, and from others of its tribe in its corolla IMG:content-1467.png:[blocks in formation] with flat open petals, and in having numerous ovules in unoriginately (un-o-rij'i-nat-li), adv. Without a single series. The 25 species are natives of tropical Asia, except 4 or 5 which are African. They are trees or shrubby climbers, usually with large flowers solitary in or near the axils, their petals often 2 or 3 inches long, reaching 6 inches in U. long i flora, a shrub of A am. Their young branches are often silky or velvety, with brown, gray, golden, or reddish hairs, or, in U. Desmos and U. IMG:content-1468.png:[blocks in formation] discolor, are covered with white dots or tubercles. Many feeble. species yield an aromatic bark and fruit, used as a stimulant and febrifuge. U. discolor, cultivated in India, and native also in China and the Malay archipelago, is a small tree or shrub with polymorphous leaves, odorous yellow flowers with silky petals in several varieties, and purple moniliform fruit with fleshy joints, resembling small grapes; from the unripe fruit the Chinese make a forests, is remarkable for the bright-green color of its large flowers. For the former U. hamata, now Artabotrys odor at is sima, see tail - grape; for the former U. (now Ca nang a) odorata, see Cananga. See also Uvaria and Xy lopia, with which the species have been much confused. dye. U. virid i flora, a gigantic climber of Indian Unoneæ (u-none-ē), n. pl. [NL. (Bentham and Hooker, 1862), I waxe feble and unourne ; To flee to God is my beste way. Hymns to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 70. unornamental (un-ôr-na-mental), a. Not or- namental. West , On the Resurrection, esurrection, p. p. 335. 335. unornamented (un-ôr'na- (un-ôr'na-men-ted), a . namented; unadorned; not decorated; plain. Coventry, Philemon to Hyde, v. unorthodox (un-ôr'thō-doks), a. Not orthodox; heterodox; heretical. Decay of Christian Piety. unorthodoxy (un-ôr thō-dok-si), n . The state or quality of being unorthodox; unsoundne in faith; heterodoxy; heresy. [Rare.] petalous plants, of the order Anonaceæ , charac- terized by flowers with densely crowded sta- mens and six valvate flattened or connivent pet- als in two rows, all nearly alike, or the inner small or absent. It includes 16 genera, of which Uno- bony: specifically noting structures which usu- IMG:content-1469.png:[blocks in formation] If the life of Christ be hid to this world, much more is his Scepter unoperative but in spirituall things. Milton, Reformation in Eng., ii. unoperculate, unoperculated (un-o-per'kū-lāt, -la-ted), a. Inoperculate. unopposed (un-o-pozd'), a. Not opposed; not resisted; not meeting with obstruction. For what end was that bill to linger beyond the usual period of an unopposed measure? Burke, Speech at Bristol, 1789. Unopposed blow. See blows. unoppre ive (un-o-pres'iv), a. Not oppre ive. Burke, French Rev. Calvin made roast-meat of Servetus at Geneva for his unorthodoxy. Tom Brown , Works, III. 104. (Davies.) uno ified (un-os'i-fid), a. Not o ified; not ally become bone in the course of time, or in other cases.