monoinsular

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adjective

Consisting of, or pertaining to, a single island.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

adjectivemonoinsular (comparative more monoinsular, superlative most monoinsular)

comparative more monoinsular · superlative most monoinsular

  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.

    1977, Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society, vol. 22, Issue 3, p. 414
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    ‘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.

    2023, Peter Marshall, “Notes from the Atlantic Archipelago”, in Literary Review, number 524, page 41

Origin

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Chicago

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