mono-, mon-
(Greek: one, alone, single; a number used as a prefix)
monogamy, monogamous
1. The condition, rule, or custom of being married to only one person at a time (opposed to polygamy or bigamy); chiefly applied to the rule or custom (more explicitly called monogyny) by which a man can have only one wife, but also including monandry, the rule or custom by which a woman can have only one husband.
2. The practice or principle of marrying only once, or of not remarrying after the death of the first spouse:; the opposite of digamy.
monogastric
monogenesis
monogenous
monogeny
monoglot
1. Someone who is able to speak only one language.
2. A person who knows just one language; monolingual.
3. Something which is composed in only one language.
monoglottic
A reference to someone who is capable of speaking only a single language.
monogomy
monogram
Two or more letters, as initials, formed into a design to be placed on clothing, notepaper, etc., or as a crest.
monogrammatic
A reference to a design composed of one or more letters, typically the initials of a name, used as an identifying mark.
monograph
1. A scholarly article, paper, or book on a single topic.
2. A highly detailed and thoroughly documented study, or paper, written about a limited area of a subject or field of inquiry: "She wrote scholarly monographs about the etymology of English words."
3. An account of a single thing, or class of things; such as, of a species of organism.
monographic
1. A reference to a written work that deals with a subject systematically, and usually extensively, on some special subject in other areas of knowledge.
2. A scholarly book or a written presentation on a single subject or a group of related subjects, usually written by one person.
monogynous
1. In botany, having only one pistil, style, or stigma; belonging to the order Monogynia.
2. Pertaining to asexual reproduction or asexually reproducing organisms.
3. The condition of having a single fertile female as in the colony of many social insects or, in higher forms, having only one female sexual partner.
monogyny
1. The mating of a male with only one female.
2. The presence of a single queen in a colony of social insects.
3. Producting only male or only female offspring.
monolatry
The worship of one god, where other gods may supposedly exist.