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  • English Word Monogenesis Definition That form of reproduction which requires but one parent, as in reproduction by fission or in the formation of buds, etc., which drop off and form new individuals; asexual reproduction.
  • English Word Monogenesis Definition The direct development of an embryo, without metamorphosis, into an organism similar to the parent organism; -- opposed to metagenesis.
  • English Word Monogenetic Definition One in genesis; resulting from one process of formation; -- used of a mountain range.
  • English Word Monogenetic Definition Relating to, or involving, monogenesis; as, the monogenetic school of physiologists, who admit but one cell as the source of all beings.
  • English Word Monogenic Definition Of or pertaining to monogenesis.
  • English Word Monogenic Definition Producing only one kind of germs, or young; developing only in one way.
  • English Word Monogenism Definition The theory or doctrine that the human races have a common origin, or constitute a single species.
  • English Word Monogenist Definition One who maintains that the human races are all of one species; -- opposed to polygenist.
  • English Word Monogenistic Definition Monogenic.
  • English Word Monogenous Definition Of or pertaining to monogenesis; as, monogenous, or asexual, reproduction.
  • English Word Monogeny Definition Monogenesis.
  • English Word Monogeny Definition The doctrine that the members of the human race have all a common origin.
  • English Word Monogoneutic Definition Having but one brood in a season.
  • English Word Monogram Definition A character or cipher composed of two or more letters interwoven or combined so as to represent a name, or a part of it (usually the initials). Monograms are often used on seals, ornamental pins, rings, buttons, and by painters, engravers, etc., to distinguish their works.
  • English Word Monogram Definition A picture in lines; a sketch.
  • English Word Monogram Definition An arbitrary sign for a word.
  • English Word Monogrammal Definition See Monogrammic.
  • English Word Monogrammatic Definition Monogrammic.
  • English Word Monogrammic Definition Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a monogram.
  • English Word Monogrammous Definition Monogrammic.
  • English Word Monograph Definition A written account or description of a single thing, or class of things; a special treatise on a particular subject of limited range.
  • English Word Monographer Definition A writer of a monograph.
  • English Word Monographic Definition Alt. of Monographical
  • English Word Monographical Definition Of or pertaining to a monograph, or to a monography; as, a monographic writing; a monographic picture.
  • English Word Monographist Definition One who writes a monograph.
  • English Word Monographous Definition Monographic.
  • English Word Monography Definition Representation by lines without color; an outline drawing.
  • English Word Monography Definition A monograph.
  • English Word Monogyn Definition One of the Monogynia.
  • English Word Monogynia Definition A Linnaean order of plants, including those which have only one style or stigma.