monodist (monodist)

[= Pg. monodist a; as monod - y + -ist.] One who composes or sings in a monodic style style, as opposed to the polyphonic style: oppose opposed to contrapuntist. Monodon (mon'ō-don), n. [NL., [NL., ns, containing only Skull and Tusk of Male Narwhal ( Monodon monoceros). horizontally in the jaw; in the female they remain em cemented in their sockets, but in the male the left one grows into an enormous tusk, like a horn projecting from the forehead, sometimes half as long as the entire animal, straight, slender, cylindrical, but spirally grooved sinistrally, and thus resembling a rope. The vertebræ 50 number, the ribs 11; the cervicals normally free, and there is no dorsal fin. See cut under nar whal. 2. In conch., same as Monodont a, Cuvier, 1817. monodont (mon'ō-dont), a. [ IMG:content-0886.png:[blocks in formation] by Lamarck in 1799. There are a number of species, known as rosary - shells.