Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In zoology and botany, consisting of a single word or term: applied to the name of an animal or a plant: opposed to binomial and polynomial.
  • Also monomial.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • Monomyal.

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  • adjective Having a single name.

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Compare binomial.

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