monotype
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əˌtaɪp noun
1.
the only print made from a metal or glass plate on which a picture is painted in oil color, printing ink, or the like.
2.
the method of producing such a print.
3.
Biology. the only type of its group, as a single species constituting a genus.
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Printing, Trademark.
a brand of machine for setting and casting type, consisting of a separate keyboard for producing a paper tape containing holes in a coded pattern so that when this tape is fed into the casting unit each code evokes a unique letter cast from hot metal by a special matrix.
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Monotype
is always a great word to know.
So is clade. Does it mean:
| a taxonomic group of organisms classified together on the basis of homologous features traced to a common ancestor |
| a mass of protoplasm found in most cells, directing their growth, metabolism, reproduction, and functioning in the transmission of genic characters |
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| —n | |
| 1. | a single print made from a metal or glass plate on which a picture has been painted |
| 2. | biology a monotypic genus or species |
| Monotype (ˈmɒnəˌtaɪp) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | trademark any of various typesetting systems, esp originally one in which each character was cast individually from hot metal |
| 2. | type produced by such a system |
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Example sentences
It threatens to overtake this highly diverse shallow marsh community and establish a purple loosestrife monotype.
Other areas where natural wildfire has been limited are in need of reducing or breaking up monotype big sage brush areas.
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