Meanings
comparative more monoinsular · superlative most monoinsular
- 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. 4141 more example
‘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
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