monospecificadj.
/ˌmɒnə(ʊ)spᵻˈsɪfɪk/, U.S. /ˈˌmɑnəspəˈsɪfᵻk/ 1. Biology. Containing or consisting of only one species.
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univocal1638
specific1650
subspecific1795
conspecific1859
racial1884
co-specific1889
relic1889
relict1899
intraspecific1919
monospecific1921
intraspecies1927
supraspecific1936
infra-specific1939
supraspecies1960
species-uniform1968
1921 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 48 219 Each group is monospecific, as I see it, but botanists have seen as many as six species in the variable L[upinus] concinnus.
1939 Ecol. Monogr. 9 296 Small integrated monospecific communities may reach a true superorganismic structure.
1970 Nature 22 Aug. 779 (caption) Digenea subarticulata..belongs to a genus formerly thought to be monospecific.
1996 Amer. Scientist Mar. 128/3 Shell beds dominated by brachiopods become very common and include nearly monospecific beds over decimeters in thickness.
2. Immunology. Of an antibody or antiserum: specific for one antigen.
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1951 L. E. H. Whitby & M. Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 5) xvii. 293 One such mono-specific serum thus appropriately prepared will only agglutinate Br[ucella] melitensis.
1974 Nature 1 Nov. 78/2 The reactivity of the DeV reagent was abolished by previous incubation with a monospecific rabbit anti-human IgG serum.
1991 Lancet 9 Mar. 616/1 We have generated eleven monospecific antibodies from rabbits and a murine monoclonal antibody.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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