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  • English Word Monodical Definition For one voice; monophonic.
  • English Word Monodical Definition Homophonic; -- applied to music in which the melody is confined to one part, instead of being shared by all the parts as in the style called polyphonic.
  • English Word Monodies Definition of Monody
  • English Word Monodimetric Definition Dimetric.
  • English Word Monodist Definition A writer of a monody.
  • English Word Monodrama Definition Alt. of Monodrame
  • English Word Monodramatic Definition Pertaining to a monodrama.
  • English Word Monodrame Definition A drama acted, or intended to be acted, by a single person.
  • English Word Monody Definition A species of poem of a mournful character, in which a single mourner expresses lamentation; a song for one voice.
  • English Word Monodynamic Definition Possessing but one capacity or power.
  • English Word Monodynamism Definition The theory that the various forms of activity in nature are manifestations of the same force.
  • English Word Monoecia Definition A Linnaean class of plants, whose stamens and pistils are in distinct flowers in the same plant.
  • English Word Monoecian Definition Of or pertaining to the Monoecia; monoecious.
  • English Word Monoecian Definition One of the Monoecia.
  • English Word Monoecian Definition A monoecious animal, as certain mollusks.
  • English Word Monoecious Definition Having the sexes united in one individual, as when male and female flowers grow upon the same individual plant; hermaphrodite; -- opposed to dioecious.
  • English Word Monoecism Definition The state or condition of being monoecious.
  • English Word Monogam Definition One of the Monogamia.
  • English Word Monogamia Definition A Linnaean order of plants, having solitary flowers with united anthers, as in the genus Lobelia.
  • English Word Monogamian Definition Alt. of Monogamic
  • English Word Monogamic Definition Pertaining to, or involving, monogamy.
  • English Word Monogamic Definition Of or pertaining to the Monogamia; having a simple flower with united anthers.
  • English Word Monogamist Definition One who practices or upholds monogamy.
  • English Word Monogamous Definition Upholding, or practicing, monogamy.
  • English Word Monogamous Definition Same as Monogamian.
  • English Word Monogamous Definition Mating with but one of the opposite sex; -- said of birds and mammals.
  • English Word Monogamy Definition Single marriage; marriage with but one person, husband or wife, at the same time; -- opposed to polygamy. Also, one marriage only during life; -- opposed to deuterogamy.
  • English Word Monogamy Definition State of being paired with a single mate.
  • English Word Monogastric Definition Having but a single stomach.
  • English Word Monogenesis Definition Oneness of origin; esp. (Biol.), development of all beings in the universe from a single cell; -- opposed to polygenesis. Called also monism.