All English words - page 3373

Meanings of Monoecious:

adjective

(of a plant or invertebrate animal) having both the male and female reproductive organs in the same individual; hermaphrodite.

Usage examples:

This monoecious species has male flowers occurring in catkins and female flowers occurring in clust…

Meanings of Monoeciously:

adjective

(of a plant or invertebrate animal) having both the male and female reproductive organs in the same individual; hermaphrodite.

Usage examples:

This monoecious species has male flowers occurring in catkins and female flowers occurring in clust…

Meanings of Monoecism:

noun

Monoecy.

Meanings of Monoenergetic:

adjective

(of particles or radiation) having energies confined to a very narrow range; consisting of such particles; emitting such radiation.

Meanings of Monoester:

noun

Any compound having a single ester group in its molecule.

Meanings of Monoestrous:

adjective

Of, relating to, or designating a mammalian sexual cycle in which the periods of oestrus occur singly and at relatively long intervals, especially annually.

Meanings of Monoethanolamine:

noun

A viscous high-boiling liquid, h₂ nch₂ ch₂ oh, used in making detergents; 2-aminoethanol.

Meanings of Monofil:

noun

A single strand of man-made fibre.

Usage examples:

Some manufacturers have developed combinations of monofilaments and fibrillated fibers; others blen…

Meanings of Monofilament:

noun

A single strand of man-made fibre.

Usage examples:

Some manufacturers have developed combinations of monofilaments and fibrillated fibers; others blen…

Meanings of Monofils:

noun

A single strand of man-made fibre.

Usage examples:

Some manufacturers have developed combinations of monofilaments and fibrillated fibers; others blen…

Meanings of Monoflagellate:

adjective

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

noun

A monoflagellate protozoan.

Meanings of Monogamian:

adjective

Of or relating to monogamy; practising monogamy, monogamous.

Meanings of Monogamic:

adjective

Of or relating to monogamy; practising monogamy, monogamous.

Meanings of Monogamistic:

adjective

Of or relating to monogamists or monogamy; favouring monogamy.

Meanings of Monogamous:

adjective

Involving marriage to one person at a time.

Usage examples:

Under canadian law all marriages must be monogamous

Meanings of Monogamously:

adverb

In a way that involves marriage to one person at a time.

Usage examples:

In the historical period, greeks were expected to marry monogamously

Meanings of Monogamousness:

noun

Monogamy.

Meanings of Monogamy:

noun

The practice of marrying or state of being married to one person at a time.

Usage examples:

Judaism has journeyed from polygamy to strict monogamy

Meanings of Monogastric:

adjective

Of a muscle: having a single ‘belly’ or fleshy part; (originally) specifically †designating the tensor tympani (obsolete). compare "digastric".

Meanings of Monogenean:

adjective

Relating to a group of flukes that are chiefly external or gill parasites of fish and only require a single host.

Usage examples:

Unionicolid mites and monogenean trematodes are often found feeding upon the mantle and branchial t…

noun

A monogenean fluke.

Usage examples:

Unlike monogeneans, trematodes have no opisthoaptor; instead, they are characterized by one or two …

Meanings of Monogeneity:

noun

The state or property of being monogenic.

Meanings of Monogeneous:

adjective

= "monogenic".

Meanings of Monogenesis:

noun

The theory that humans are all descended from a single pair of ancestors.

Usage examples:

This seems to be the ground of his preference for monogenesis - the theory that the races are desce…

Meanings of Monogenic:

adjective

Involving or controlled by a single gene.

Usage examples:

Another difficulty when working with agronomically relevant traits is that many quantitative traits…

Meanings of Monogenous:

adjective

Having a single common origin, monophyletic; of or relating to monogenism. now only in extended use (rare).