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Definition of Monomorphic
1. a. Having but a single form; retaining the same form throughout the various stages of development; of the same or of an essentially similar type of structure; -- opposed to dimorphic, trimorphic, and polymorphic.
Definition of Monomorphic
1. Adjective. having or existing in a single shape or form ¹
2. Adjective. (genetics of a gene) invariant across a species ¹
3. Adjective. (programming of a function) taking only a single data type ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Monomorphic
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Monomorphic
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Monomorphic
Literary usage of Monomorphic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal Parasites of Man by Harold Benjamin Fantham, Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun (1916)
"monomorphic TRYPANOSOMES. A number of trypanosomes, characterized by relative
uniformity in size and structure, may be considered under this heading. ..."
2. Materials for the Study of Variation by William Bateson (1894)
"By considering the possible ways in which such a condition of dimorphism may
arise in a monomorphic community, one of the uses of the term Discontinuity as ..."
3. Popular Science Monthly (1912)
"... while in the same forests it also occurs in two monomorphic forms, resembling
two other ... Dr. Carpenter succeeded in breeding one of the monomorphic ..."
4. The Journal of Comparative Neurology by Denison University (1903)
"In the Pleuronectidae, on the other hand, the chiasmata are monomorphic for each
species; in dextral species the left nerve is dorsal, in sinistral species ..."
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