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marriage; marriage with but one person, husband or wife, at the same time; -- opposed to polygamy. Also, one marriage only during life; -- opposed to deuterogamy.

esp. (Biol.), development of all beings in the universe from a single cell; -- opposed to polygenesis. Called also monism. Dana. Haeckel.

One who maintains that the human races are all of one species; -- opposed to polygenist.

or of an essentially similar type of structure; -- opposed to dimorphic, trimorphic, and polymorphic.

Single-voiced; having but one part; as, a monophonic composition; -- opposed to Ant: polyphonic.

single family or stock, or to development from a single common parent form; -- opposed to polyphyletic; as, monophyletic origin.

One who monopolizes; one who has a monopoly; one who favors monopoly.

To acquire a monopoly of; to have or get the exclusive privilege or means of dealing in, or the exclusive possession of; to engross the whole of; as, to monopolize the coffee trade; to monopolize land.

de containing one atom of sulphur, and analogous to a monoxide; -- contrasted with a Ant: polysulphide; as, galena is a monosulphide.

golden plates, called the Book of Mormon, first published in 1830. The Mormons believe in polygamy, and their hierarchy of apostles, etc., has control of civil and religious matters.

A composition adapted to sacred words in the elaborate polyphonic church style; an anthem.

- Paper mulberry, a tree (Broussonetia papyrifera), related to the true mulberry, used in Polynesia for making tapa cloth by macerating and pounding the inner bark, and in China and Japan for the manufacture of paper. It is seen as a shade tree in America.

Same as Polynomial.

ing, two or more waves of pressure, or electromotive force, not in phase with each other; polyphase.

A word of many syllables; a polysyllable. [R.] -- Mul`ti*syl*lab"ic, a.

Of or pertaining to both throat and nose; as, a nasopharyngeal polypus.

water or aqueous solution; as, Neptunian rocks. Neptunian races (Ethnol.), the Malay and Polynesian races. -- Neptunian theory (Geol.), the theory of Werner, which referred the formation of all rocks and strata to the agency of water; -- opposed to the Plutonic theory.

A European crab (Polybius Henslowii).

A figure or polygon having nine sides and nine angles.

l; as, nutritive food or berries. Nutritive plasma. (Biol.) See Idioplasma. -- Nutritive polyp (Zoöl.), any one of the zooids of a compound hydroid, or coral, which has a mouth and digestive cavity. -- Nu"tri*tive*ly, adv. -- Nu"tri*tive*ness, n.