monogenist
English
Adjective
monogenist (not comparable)
- Having a common origin; exhibiting monogenesis.
- 2001, Joseph D. Robinson, Mechanisms of Synaptic Transmission, page 23:
- Despite those demonstrations of a monogenist embryological development, opponents continued their advocacy of polygenist views by focusing instead on nerve regeneration: after a nerve is cut the processes peripheral to the injury first degenerate and later regenerate.
Noun
monogenist (plural monogenists)
- (anthropology, historical) One who maintains that all members of the human race belong to a single species.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “monogenist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French monogéniste.
Declension
Declension of monogenist
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) monogenist | monogenistul | (niște) monogeniști | monogeniștii |
| genitive/dative | (unui) monogenist | monogenistului | (unor) monogeniști | monogeniștilor |
| vocative | monogenistule | monogeniștilor | ||
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