Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Chemistry Having only one form, as one crystal form.
- adj. Zoology Having one or the same genotype, form, or structure through a series of developmental changes.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In zoology, of one and the same (or essentially similar) type of structure; formed much alike; notably uniform in morphic character: said of a number of animals collectively, or of the zoölogical group which they constitute: as, birds are a highly monomorphic class of animals.
- In entomology, having but one form, structure, or morphological character; identical or invariable in form throughout successive stages of development; monomorphous; homomorphous; ametabolic.
Wiktionary
- adj. having or existing in a single shape or form
- adj. genetics, of a gene invariant across a species
- adj. programming, of a function taking only a single data type
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Biol.) Having but a single form; retaining the same form throughout the various stages of development; of the same or of an essentially similar type of structure; -- opposed to
dimorphic ,trimorphic , andpolymorphic .
Etymologies
- mono- (“one”) + -morphic (“of a form”) (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Male and female penguins are very similar in appearance and can be impossible to distinguish without behavioral cues (referred to as monomorphic).”
“Auks are sexually monomorphic, meaning that males and females look the same.”
“These birds are monomorphic, which means that males and females look the same to human eyes, anyway.”
The Guardian: Mystery bird: rufous-tailed weaver, Histurgops ruficaudus
“Nikon D300, 600 mm lens, ISO 800, f/9, 1/640 sec Question: This non-migratory monomorphic mystery bird, which is endemic to the highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea, is a member of a family of birds that are exclusive to the Old World.”
The Guardian: Mystery bird: Ethiopian cisticola, Cisticola lugubris
“The procedure allows the staff to determine the gender of the sexually monomorphic Hornbill through internal examination of its reproductive organs.”
“This monomorphic species is identified by its overall greyish colour, white forehead, orange-red eyes surrounded by black and its orangish or chestnut-coloured belly and undertail coverts.”
The Guardian: Mystery bird: Ethiopian catbird, Parophasma galinieri
“But it will not show calcifications - ever, as far as i can tell - as being monomorphic vs pleomorphic vs vascular.”
“They are not, though, grotesque in their habits, physically repulsive to most other humans, monolinguistic, monocultural, or monomorphic.”
“What we have in District 9 is a story about beings who are according to the information we are given monomorphic, monocultural, monolinguistic, physically repulsive to most humans, grotesque in their habits, barbaric in their behaviors, and mostly quite stupid.”
“Lots of variables and members are still monomorphic, and where some aren't, this is either handled with tagged values or invisibly creating multiple instances of a function with one or more polymorphic parameters, each specialised for a possible type assignment so that they are actually monomorphic.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘monomorphic’.
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phrontistery - m
from phrontistery.info
multiloculate, multilocation, multiflorous, multifid, multifarious, multicipital, multeity, multarticulate, multanimous, mulse, mullock, mullion and 898 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Greek to me
Gordian knot, Proteus, sisyphean, eudemonia, glossolalia, hemorrhage, hamadryad, aphotic, tautogeneity, anthropomorphism, polygamy, polygyny and 37 more...
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Body bio- baby!
hemorrhage, prognosis, blowsabella, somatotype, ectomorphic, endomorphic, mesomorphic, labia minora, labia majora, entopic, ectopic, ectopic pregnancy and 65 more...
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Logodaedalus' Lexical Locutionary
Discombobulating the illiterate since the middle of the last century.
adiaphora, agitprop, alliteration, apophthegm, autarky, bête noire, bezoar, biorhythm, braggadocio, canaille, confabulate, confrère and 332 more...
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