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Meanings of Monochromes:

noun

A photograph or picture developed or executed in black and white or in varying tones of only one colour.

Usage examples:

Pioneering monochromes by malevich, rodchenko, reinhardt, klein and ryman employ just one color, un…

adjective

(of a photograph or picture, or a television screen) consisting of or displaying images in black and white or in varying tones of only one colour.

Usage examples:

The images are displayed on monochrome screens on the flight deck and on the lower deck.

Meanings of Monochromist:

noun

A person who paints, draws, or prints in monochrome.

Meanings of Monochromous:

adjective

Having only one colour; = "monochrome".

Meanings of Monochromy:

noun

The art of painting, printing, or decorating in monochrome.

Meanings of Monochronic:

adjective

Relating to or dating from a single period of time; synchronous.

Meanings of Monochronous:

adjective

Simultaneous, occurring at the same time.

Meanings of Monociliated:

adjective

Of a cell or unicellular organism: having a single cilium.

Meanings of Monocle:

noun

A single eyeglass, kept in position by the muscles around the eye.

Usage examples:

The knight was now looking around through a single monocle at all the boys passing by, sizing one u…

Meanings of Monocleid:

adjective

Designating a cabinet locked by a single key.

Meanings of Monocleide:

adjective

Designating a cabinet locked by a single key.

Meanings of Monocles:

noun

A single eyeglass, kept in position by the muscles around the eye.

Usage examples:

The knight was now looking around through a single monocle at all the boys passing by, sizing one u…

Meanings of Monoclinally:

adverb

In a monoclinal manner.

Meanings of Monocline:

noun

A bend in rock strata that are otherwise uniformly dipping or horizontal.

Usage examples:

This rotation caused the large-scale monoclines that characterize the footwall geometry of the güne…

Meanings of Monoclinic:

adjective

Of or denoting a crystal system or three-dimensional geometrical arrangement having three unequal axes of which one is at right angles to the other two.

Usage examples:

All crystals display anomalous birefringence when viewed down the c-axis, indicating that they have…

Meanings of Monoclinous:

adjective

(of a plant) having stamens and pistils in the same flower.

Usage examples:

In self-pollination, the flower is monoclinous and the stigma receives pollen from the anthers of t…

Meanings of Monoclonal:

adjective

Forming a clone which is derived asexually from a single individual or cell.

Usage examples:

Whether polyclonal proliferations progress to monoclonal lymphomas has not been proven.

Meanings of Monocondylar:

adjective

Originally: having a single occipital condyle. now: of, relating to, or involving a single condyle.

Meanings of Monocondylian:

adjective

= monocondylar .

Meanings of Monocondylic:

adjective

= monocondylar .

Meanings of Monocoque:

noun

An aircraft or vehicle structure in which the chassis is integral with the body.

Usage examples:

It featured an aluminum monocoque with plastic body panels, possibly attached with adhesives.

Meanings of Monocormic:

adjective

(of a tree or shrub) having a single main axis of growth.

Meanings of Monocot:

noun

A monocotyledon.

Usage examples:

The known flora consists of 41 ferns and fern allies, 3 gymnosperms, 291 monocots, and 516 dicots.

Meanings of Monocots:

noun

A monocotyledon.

Usage examples:

The known flora consists of 41 ferns and fern allies, 3 gymnosperms, 291 monocots, and 516 dicots.

Meanings of Monocotyl:

adjective

= "monocotyledonous".

Meanings of Monocotyledon:

noun

A flowering plant with an embryo that bears a single cotyledon (seed leaf). monocotyledons constitute the smaller of the two great divisions of flowering plants, and typically have elongated stalkless leaves with parallel veins (e.g. grasses, lilies, palms).

Usage examples:

Sandersonia aurantiaca is a liliaceous monocotyledon with a bell-shaped corolla formed from fused p…