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monoinsular

monoinsular adjective: consisting of, or pertaining to, a single island.

Adjective

monoinsular (comparative more monoinsular, superlative most monoinsular)

  1. Consisting of, or pertaining to, a single island.
    • Xyleborus simillimus appears to be a monoinsular endemic and forms a complex with two or three other species.1977, Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society, vol. 22, Issue 3, p. 414
    • ‘Great Britain’ may indeed be the name of an island, but, as Albinia rightly points out, the British polity is not, and never has been, mono-insular.2023, Peter Marshall, “Notes from the Atlantic Archipelago”, in Literary Review, number 524, page 41

Forms of monoinsular

comparativemore monoinsular
superlativemost monoinsular

Origin of monoinsular

From mono- + insular.

Questions about monoinsular

What does monoinsular mean?
Monoinsular means consisting of, or pertaining to, a single island.
What part of speech is monoinsular?
Monoinsular is an adjective.

Words near monoinsular in the dictionary

  1. monoinfection
  2. monoinfections
  3. monoinnervated
  4. monoinnervation
  5. monoinstitutional
  6. monoinsular
  7. monointercalation
  8. monointercalations
  9. monointercalator
  10. monointercalators
  11. monointoxication

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