Etymology

monodomy

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Today it means: The situation where an ant colony is established at a single nest site. Full definition →

Ancient Greek δόμος
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromδόμος“house”
  2. English todaymonodomy

From mono- + Ancient Greek δόμος (dómos, “house”) + -y.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekδόμος all →

gymnodomouspolydomy

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