monotocous
English
adj
Definitions
- (botany) Bearing fruit only once; monocarpic.
- (zoology) Laying a single egg; uniparous.
Etymology
Compound from Ancient Greek μόνος (alone, only, single, sole, solitary, unique, singular, af) + Ancient Greek τόκος (offspring, childbirth).
Origin
Ancient Greek
τόκος
Gloss
offspring, childbirth
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- mono- English
- monoecious English
- monopsony English
- monostich English
- polytocous English
- mono Finnish
- Monica Latin
- Mŏnĭca Latin
- iuniperus Latin
- moneō Latin
- monoculus Latin
- monocytus Latin
- nego Latin
- Monozyt German
- mono- German
- mono- Dutch, Flemish
- monopsone French
- мономе́р Russian
- γάμος Ancient Greek
- μονάρχης Ancient Greek
- μοναρχία Ancient Greek
- μονογενής Ancient Greek
- μονοειδής Ancient Greek
- μονοπωλία Ancient Greek
- μονοπώλιον Ancient Greek
- μονόφθογγος Ancient Greek
- μόναρχος Ancient Greek
- μόνος Ancient Greek
- μῶνυξ Ancient Greek
- τόκος Ancient Greek
- ἀστήρ Ancient Greek
- monogami Norwegian Nynorsk
- mona- Irish
- monarki Danish
- mono- Catalan, Valencian
- mono- Galician
- μονός Greek (modern)
- τόκος Greek (modern)
- Monako Latvian
- տոկոս Old Armenian
- Θεός grc-koi
- *mónwos Proto-Hellenic