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monoinsular

adj

Etymology

From mono- + insular.

  1. learned borrowing from īnsulāris
  2. prefixed as monoinsular — “mono + insular”

Definitions

  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.
    • ‘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.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA