monotonical (monotonikal)

[ We should not be lulled to sleep by the length of a mono tonical declamation. Chesterfield. monotonically (mon-ō-ton'i-kal-i), adv. In a monotonic or monotonous manner. monotonist (mō-not'ō-nist), n. [ IMG:content-0906.png:[blocks in formation] Monotremata (mon-ō-trem'a-tä), n. pl. [NL., The order coincides with the subcla Ornithodelphia, and also with Prot other i a and Amasta; it is divided into two suborders, Tachyglo a and Platypoda, respectively constituted by the families Tachyglo idæ (or Echidnide ) and Ornithorhynchidæ (or Platypodide ). There are mammary glands, but no nipples. There is a common cloaca, into which empty the sperm-ducts, oviducts, and ureters, and which also receives the feces, as in birds; and the females lay eggs like those of reptiles. The testes, like the ovaries, remain abdominal. There is a peculiar T-shaped episternum or interclavicle, and the coracoid joins the as in birds. (See cut at interclavicle.) There are no true teeth. The very peculiar mammals which constitute this order are the duck-mole or duck-billed platypus, Ornithorhynchus paradox us, and several species of so-called spiny ant-eaters, of the genera Echidna or Tachyglo us and Zaglo us or A can tho glo us. See cuts under duckbill and Echidnidos. 2. In conch., a division of geophilous pulmonate gastropods, having the external male and female orifices contiguous or common:: opposed to Ditremata.