monotone
— Adjective
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~ of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value
monotonic
— Adjective
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~ of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value
monotonic
— Adjective
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~ sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's faint monotonous hooting"
monotonous
— Adjective
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~ tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; "a humdrum existence; all work and no play"; "nothing is so monotonous as the sea"
monotonous
— Adjective
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~ sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's faint monotonous hooting"
monotonously
— Adverb
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~ in a monotonous manner; "the history of the play throughout the latter part of the eighteenth century is monotonously uneventful"
monotony
— Noun
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~ the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety; "he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work"; "he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners"; "he hated the sameness of the food the college served"
monotony
— Noun
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~ constancy of tone or pitch or inflection
Monotremata
— Noun
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~ coextensive with the subclass Prototheria
monotreme
— Noun
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~ the most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria
Monotropa hypopithys
— Noun
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~ fleshy tawny or reddish saprophytic herb resembling the Indian pipe and growing in woodland humus of eastern North America; in some classifications placed in a separate genus Hypopitys
Monotropa
— Noun
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~ leafless fleshy saprophytic plants; in some classifications placed in the family Pyrolaceae
Monotropaceae
— Noun
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~ used in some classification for saprophytic herbs sometimes included in the family Pyrolaceae: genera Monotropa and Sarcodes
monotype
— Noun
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~ the sole print made by pressing paper against a painted or inked glass or metal plate
monotype
— Noun
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~ a typesetting machine operated from a keyboard that sets separate characters
monotype
— Noun
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~ (biology) a taxonomic group with a single member (a single species or genus)
monotypic
— Adjective
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~ consisting of only one type
monounsaturated fatty acid
— Noun
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~ an unsaturated fatty acid whose carbon chain has one double or triple valence bond per molecule; found chiefly in olive oil and chicken and almonds
monounsaturated
— Adjective
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~ (of long-chain carbon compounds especially fats) saturated except for one multiple bond
monovalent
— Adjective
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~ containing only one kind of antibody