Menomonie
a city and county-seat of Dunn co., Wis.; on the Red Cedar river, and on the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha, and the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul railroads; 64 miles S. E. of St. Paul, Minn. There are the Stout Manual Training School, the Mabel Tainter Memorial Library, County Asylum for Chronic Patients, waterworks, electric light plant, National and State banks, and several newspapers. It has industries in lumber, brick, flour, gasoline engines, cigars, etc. Pop. (1910) 5,036; (1920) 5,104.
Vol. VI-Cyc-M MENOPOME ΜΕΝΟΡΟΜΕ (men'ō-pōm), Protonopsis horrida, a large North American amphibian in the Salamander order. It is widely distributed in the rivers of the Mississippi basin, and is well known as the "hellbender," "alligator," "waterdog," etc., names which suggest its fierce characteristics. It resembles the salamander in form, has four well-developed limbs, and a persistent gil gill-aperture. It attains a length of 18 inches to 2 feet, and has extraordinary powers of voracity and vitality.