Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as monodelphian.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective botany Describing stamens that have filaments united into a single tubelike group
  • adjective zoology Of or relating to the Monodelphia.

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Examples

  • If any of my readers hunger and thirst for information concerning the descent of the cat through marsupial ancestors and mesozoic mammals to the generalized placental or monodelphous carnivora of to-day, let them consult St. George Mivart, who gives altogether the most comprehensive and exhaustive scientific study to the cat ever published, and whose book on the cat is an excellent work for the earnest beginner in the study of biological science.

    Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others Helen M. Winslow

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