monilicornes

pl. [Latin monile (gen it. monilis )=a necklace, and cornu =a horn.] Entom.: The fourth or most aberrant of the five tribes into which Swains on divided the Coleoptera. The antenne are moniliform, the body short, oval, the wings often wanting. He divided it into Ca i de, Chrysomel ide, Clythridæ, Erotylide, and Hispide. ( Swain son & Shuckard: Insects (1840), pp. 115, 311.) mo-nil-1 form, a. [Latin monile a neck lace, and form a =form, shape; French monili. forme.] *1. Ord. Lang.: Like a necklace in form or shape. 3 2. Bot .: Formed IMG:content-1351.png:[blocks in formation] like a necklace; having alternate bead-like swellings and contractions, as the legumes of So phora japonica , Ornithopus perp us ill us , . Called 1. Moniliform root of Pelargonium. 2. & 3. Moniliform hairs (Trades can tia and Mirabilis). also Necklace-shaped. *mon-1-ment, subst . [Lat. mon i mentum, from moneo to warn, to advise.] [MONUMENT.] chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; IMG:content-1352.png:[blocks in formation] "An auncient booke, hight Briton moniments ." Spenser: F. Q., II. ix. 59. mo-nim-I-a, s. [Gr. monimos=staying in one place, abiding, lasting; mone =staying; meno =to stay, to remain.] Bot .: The typical genus of the order Monimiacese. The carpels have each one pendulous ovule, enclosed by the tube of the calyx, which becomes berry-like. It consists of two or three trees or shrubs from the Mauritius. mo-nim-I-ā-çě-æ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. monimi ( a ); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -aceœ.] Bot. (pl.): Monimiads; an order of Diclinous Exogens, tribe Men is per males. It consists of aromatic trees or shrubs, with opposite exstipulate leaves and axillary, unisexual, apetalous flowers. Calyx somewhat globose, the segments sometimes in more rows than one and petaloid; stamens, indefinite, covering the inside of the calyx-tube; ovules, several, superior, each one-celled; fruit, several one-seeded nuts, inclosed within the enlarged calyx. Found chiefly in South America and the southern hemisphere. Known genera, eight; species, forty (१). (Lindley.) mo-nim-I-ăds, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. monimia, and Eng., ., pl. suff. -ads.] Bot.: The name given by Lindley to the order Monimiacese (q. v.).