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monophylous

monophylous adjective: having a single leaf.

Adjective

monophylous (not comparable)

  1. Having a single leaf

Origin of monophylous

From mono- + -phyllous.

Questions about monophylous

What does monophylous mean?
Monophylous means having a single leaf.
What part of speech is monophylous?
Monophylous is an adjective.

Words near monophylous in the dictionary

  1. monophylly
  2. monophylogenetic
  3. monophylogenetically
  4. monophylogenic
  5. monophylogeny
  6. monophylous
  7. monophylum
  8. monophyly
  9. monophyodont
  10. monophyodontism
  11. monophyodonts

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