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monoinsular en · ADJ

Etymology

From mono- + insular.

Meanings

1. Consisting of, or pertaining to, a single island.
   • ‘Great Britain’ may indeed be the name of an island, but, as Albinia rightly points out, the British polity is not, and never has been, mono-insular. 2023, Peter Marshall, “Notes from the Atlantic Archipelago”, in Literary Review, number 524, page 41:
   • Xyleborus simillimus appears to be a monoinsular endemic and forms a complex with two or three other species. 1977, Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society, vol. 22, Issue 3, p. 414

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