Definition of Monogenetic

1. a. One in genesis; resulting from one process of formation; -- used of a mountain range.

Definition of Monogenetic

1. Adjective. having a single source, originating in one place at a single moment ¹

2. Adjective. (biology linguistics) of or pertaining to monogenesis ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Monogenetic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Monogenetic

1. 1. One in genesis; resulting from one process of formation; used of a mountain range. 2. Relating to, or involving, monogenesis; as, the monogenetic school of physiologists, who admit but one cell as the source of all beings. See: Monogenesis. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Monogenetic

monogamia
monogamic
monogamies
monogamist
monogamists
monogamously
monogamousness
monogastric
monogenean
monogeneans
monogeneric
monogeneses
monogenetic (current term)
monogenic disease
monogenic disorder
monogenically
monogenics
monogenies
monogenism
monogenist
monogenistic
monogenists
monogerm
monogermane

Literary usage of Monogenetic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Science of Thought by Friedrich Max Müller (1887)
"... his readers that the dif- monogenetic ference between these two schools, the '•**<**- monogenetic and polygenetic, is of Theory, small importance. ..."

2. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1880)
"The Green Mountains are an example of another monogenetic or individual range. The Adirondacks, the Highland Range (of New Jersey and New York) and its ..."

3. A Century of Science in America: With Special Reference to the American by Edward Salisbury Dana, Charles Schuchert (1918)
"It should have in view alone monogenetic mountains and these only at the time of their making. It will then read, plication and ..."

4. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"In most of the monogenetic Trematoda the lobes are well marked, and the testes are ... Similar unicellular glands are present in some monogenetic Trematoda, ..."

5. A Student's Text-book of Zoology by Adam Sedgwick, Joseph Jackson Lister, Arthur Everett Shipley (1898)
"in which case there is no intermediate host and no alternation of generations: s\ich forms are monogenetic. and are mostly ectoparasites ; or they ..."

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