Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the female generative passages single; specifically, pertaining to the Monodelphia, or having their characters.
- noun A monodelphian mammal.
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- noun zoology One of the Monodelphia.
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Examples
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The next day he rose early, and while the rest of his suite were sleeping went out unattended, returning before breakfast was over with a tally-card showing a killing of thirteen dinosaurs, twenty-seven megatheriums, and about six tons of chlamy-dophori, not to mention a mammoth jack-rabbit that some idiot had told him was the only specimen in the world of the monodelphian mollycoddle.
The Autobiography of Methuselah John Kendrick Bangs 1892
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A lion is a monodelphian mammal, predatory, walking on its toes, of nocturnal habits, with a short rounded head and muzzle; dental formula: Incisors (3-3)/(3-3), canines (1-1)/(1/1), præmolars
Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889
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