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Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology: Complete Work - Best Text

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<strong>Online</strong> <strong>Dictionary</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Invertebrate</strong> <strong>Zoology</strong> 577noidea) Refers to calyx plates <strong>of</strong> primitive stalked crinoidshaving an aboral cycle <strong>of</strong> 5 plates (basal) and 5 plates (radial)oral to the basal plates.monodactyl, monodactyle, monodactylous a. [Gr. monos,one; dactylos, finger] (ARTHRO) Pertaining to an appendage,ambulacrum or claw with only one unguis. seebidactyl.monodelphic a. [Gr. monos, one; delphys, womb] (NEMATA)Having one uterus.monodesmatic a. [Gr. monos, one; desmos, tendon] (AR-THRO: Chelicerata) Pertaining to an articulation betweentwo segments <strong>of</strong> an appendage with one tendon inserted atthe base <strong>of</strong> the distal segment.monodisk, monodisc n. [Gr. monos, one; diskos, disc] (CNID:Scyphozoa) One ephyra developed and released at a timebefore another forms by transverse fission. see polydisk,strobilization.monodomous a. [Gr. monos, one; doma, house] (ARTHRO: Insecta)Having one nest per colony. see polydomous.monoecious a. [Gr. monos, one; oikos, house] Having twokinds <strong>of</strong> gametes produced by the same individual; hermaphrodite;ambisexual. monoecism n. see dioecious.monoembryony n. [Gr. monos, one; embryon, fetus] Theproduction <strong>of</strong> only one embryo from a fertilized ovum oregg.monogamy n. [Gr. monos, one; gamos, marriage] The condition<strong>of</strong> having only one mate. monogamous a. see polygamy.monogenesis n. [Gr. monos, one; genesis, beginning] 1. Thedevelopment <strong>of</strong> life from a single entity or cell. 2. Asexualreproduction. 3. Direct development without metamorphosis.monogenetic a. [Gr. monos, one; genesis, beginning] 1. Pertainingto monogenesis. 2. Designates parasites with asimple direct life cycle that is completed in one host. 3.Producing <strong>of</strong>fspring <strong>of</strong> one sex by arrhenogenesis or thelygenesis.

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