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Webster 1913 Edition

Monotypic

{

Mon′o-type

,

Monˊo-typ′ic

, }

Adj.

[

Mono-

+

-type

: cf. F.

monotype

.]

(Biol.)

Having but one type; containing but one representative;

as, a

monotypic

genus, which contains but one species

.