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monotypic, a.|mɒnəʊˈtɪpɪk|
[f. mod.L. monotyp-us (see next) + -ic.]
1. Having or containing only one type or representative.
1878T. Gill in Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 231 All the genera are monotypic except Malthe. 1881Bentham in Jrnl. Linn. Soc. XVII. 322 Paradisanthus, Kegelia [etc.]..are all monotypic genera. 1888J. T. Gulick ibid., Zool. XX. 201 Monotypic Evolution is any transformation of a species that does not destroy its unity of type. a1894Romanes Darwin & after D. (1897) III. 75 The all-important distinction between monotypic and polytypic evolution.
2. That is a monotype; that is the sole representative of a genus or a higher group.
1886P. L. Sclater Catal. Birds Brit. Mus. XI. 17 Hemidacnis... This is again a monotypic form.
So monoˈtypical a. = monotypic.
1890in Century Dict. And in later Dicts. |