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Monkey-Pot
- - The fruit of two South American trees (Lecythis Ollaria, and Lecythis Zabucajo), which have for their fruit large, pot-shaped, woody capsules containing delicious nuts, and opening almost explosively by a circular lid at the top. Vases and pots are made of this capsule.
Monkeypods
- noun - large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and seed pods that are eaten by cattle
Monkeytail
- - A short, round iron bar or lever used in naval gunnery.
Monkfishes
- noun - fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey
- flesh of a large-headed anglerfish of the Atlantic waters of North America
- sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but that swim the way sharks do
Monkflower
- - A name of certain curious orchids which bear three kinds of flowers formerly referred to three genera, but now ascertained to be sexually different forms of the same genus (Catasetum tridentatum, etc.).
Monkshoods
- noun - a poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield aconite
Monoamines
- noun - a molecule containing one amine group (especially one that is a neurotransmitter)
Monoatomic
- adjective - of or relating to an element consisting of a single atom; "helium and argon are monatomic gases"
Monoblasts
- noun - a large immature monocyte normally found in bone marrow
Monocarpic
- adjective - dying after bearing fruit only once