monotypic, a.
(mɒnəʊˈtɪpɪk)
[f. mod.L. monotyp-us (see next) + -ic.]
1. Having or containing only one type or representative.
| 1878 T. Gill in Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 231 All the genera are monotypic except Malthe. 1881 Bentham in Jrnl. Linn. Soc. XVII. 322 Paradisanthus, Kegelia [etc.]..are all monotypic genera. 1888 J. T. Gulick ibid., Zool. XX. 201 Monotypic Evolution is any transformation of a species that does not destroy its unity of type. a 1894 Romanes Darwin & after D. (1897) III. 75 The all-important distinction between monotypic and polytypic evolution. |
2. That is a monotype; that is the sole representative of a genus or a higher group.
| 1886 P. L. Sclater Catal. Birds Brit. Mus. XI. 17 Hemidacnis... This is again a monotypic form. |
So monoˈtypical a. = monotypic.
| 1890 in Century Dict. And in later Dicts. |