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Having a monopodium or a single and continuous axis, as a birchen twig or a cornstalk.

A single and continuous vegetable axis; -- opposed to sympodium.

A measure of but a single foot.

A monopolist. [Obs.]

One who monopolizes; one who has a monopoly; one who favors monopoly.

Of or pertaining to a monopolist. North Am. Rev.

A monopolist. Sylvester.

To acquire a monopoly of; to have or get the exclusive privilege or means of dealing in, or the exclusive possession of; to engross the whole of; as, to monopolize the coffee trade; to monopolize land.

One who monopolizes.

The exclusive power, or privilege of selling a commodity; the exclusive power, right, or privilege of dealing in some article, or of trading in some market; sole command of the traffic in anything, however obtained; as, the proprietor of a patented article is given a monopoly of its sale for a limited time; chartered t…

An exhibition in which an actor sustains many characters.

The doctrine that there is but one immortal soul or intellect with which all men are endowed.

Round and without a cella; consisting of a single ring of columns supporting a roof; -- said esp. of a temple.

A circular temple consisting of a roof supported on columns, without a cella.

A noun having only one case. Andrews.

Having but a single stone or kernel.

Belonging to, or affecting, a single organ, or set of organs.

The Marsipobranchiata.

A composition in verse, in which all the lines end with the same rhyme.

t decomposable into simpler sugars by hydrolysis. Specif., as used by some, a hexose. The monosaccharides are all open-chain compounds containing hydroxyl groups and either an aldehyde group or a ketone group.