monoinsular

adj

monoinsular

adj

Etymology From mono- + insular.

1

Consisting of, or pertaining to, a single island.

  • Xyleborus simillimus appears to be a monoinsular endemic and forms a complex with two or three other species.1977, Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society, vol. 22, Issue 3, p. 414
  • ‘Great Britain’ may indeed be the name of an island, but, as Albinia rightly points out, the British polity is not, and never has been, mono-insular.2023, Peter Marshall, “Notes from the Atlantic Archipelago”, in Literary Review, number 524, page 41:

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