"eating only one kind of food," by 1849, of insects, from mono- "single" + -phagous "feeding on, eating." Greek monophagos meant "eating once a day."
monomer
monometallic
monomorphous
mononuclear
mononucleosis
monophagous
monophobia
monophonic
Monophysite
monoplane
monopode
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