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Belonging to a monody.

Dimetric.

A writer of a monody.

A drama acted, or intended to be acted, by a single person.

Pertaining to a monodrama.

A species of poem of a mournful character, in which a single mourner expresses lamentation; a song for one voice.

Possessing but one capacity or power. "Monodynamic men." De Quincey.

The theory that the various forms of activity in nature are manifestations of the same force. G. H. Lewes.

A Linnæan class of plants, whose stamens and pistils are in distinct flowers in the same plant.

Of or pertaining to the Monoecia; monoecious. -- n.

Having the sexes united in one individual, as when male and female flowers grow upon the same individual plant; hermaphrodite; -- opposed to Ant: dioecious.

The state or condition of being monoecious.

One of the Monogamia.

A Linnæan order of plants, having solitary flowers with united anthers, as in the genus Lobelia.

Pertaining to, or involving, monogamy.

One who practices or upholds monogamy. Goldsmith.

Upholding, or practicing, monogamy.

Single marriage; marriage with but one person, husband or wife, at the same time; -- opposed to polygamy. Also, one marriage only during life; -- opposed to deuterogamy.

Having but a single stomach.

Oneness of origin; esp. (Biol.), development of all beings in the universe from a single cell; -- opposed to polygenesis. Called also monism. Dana. Haeckel.