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Pertaining to the Monogynia; monogynous. -- n.

Of or pertaining to Monogynia; having only one style or stigma.

The state or condition of being monogynous.

Same as Mucigen.

A description of the ocean.

A name given to any one of the four elements, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, which are especially characteristic ingredients of organic compounds; also, by extension, to other elements sometimes found in the same connection; as sulphur, phosphorus, etc.

The origin and development of organs in animals and plants.

Of or pertaining to organogenesis.

Organogenesis.

Of or pertaining to organography.

One versed in organography.

A description of the organs of animals or plants.

See Uranographist.

See Uranography.

A polymeric modification of cyanogen, obtained as a brown or black amorphous residue by heating mercuric cyanide.

The production of new individuals from virgin females by means of ova which have the power of developing without the intervention of the male element; the production, without fertilization, of cells capable of germination. It is one of the phenomena of alternate generation. Cf. Heterogamy, and Metagenesis.…

Of, pertaining to, or produced by, parthenogenesis; as, parthenogenetic forms. -- Par`the*no*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv.

Parthenogenetic.

Same as Parthenogenesis.

The antecedent of the ferment pepsin. A substance contained in the form of granules in the peptic cells of the gastric glands. It is readily convertible into pepsin. Also called propepsin.