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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In zoology, having a single central capsule, as a radiolarian.
  • In Coccidiidea, producing only one falciform body: as, a monozoic spore. Contrasted with dizoic and so on to polyzoic, 3.
  • In cestodos, having only one set of generative organs, as in the unsegmented Archigetes. Contrasted with polyzoic, or segmented forms like Tænia.

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