monoprionidian

The story

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromμόνος“single”
2. taxonomic name · derived fromMonoprion“section of genus Graptolithus”
3. English todaymonoprionidian

From the now disused taxonomic name Monoprion (“section of genus Graptolithus”), coined by the French geologist and palaeontologist Joachim Barrande in 1850 from Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos, “single”) + πρίων (príōn, “a saw”), + -idian.

Words from the same roots