Entry: monomitotic (adj.)
In context:"...more or less loners, self-contained, a monomitotic cell, eccentric and borderline-incompetent..."
Definition: From mono (comb. form): Used in words adopted from Greek and in English formations modelled on these, and as a freely productive prefix, with the senses ‘one, alone, single’, ‘having, involving, etc., one’, indicating that a characteristic or property is present singly or uniformly.
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mitotic (adj.): Of or relating to mitosis; of the nature of mitosis; undergoing or involved in mitosis.
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SNOOT score: 1
Page: 480
Source: Oxford English Dictionary
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