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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

MONOTROPA

Mo *not "ro *pa, n. Etym: [NL. , fr. Gr. (Bot. )

Defn: A genus of parasitic or saprophytic plants including the Indian pipe and pine sap. The name alludes to the dropping end of the stem.

New American Oxford Dictionary

monotropy

monotropy |məˈnɒtrəpi | ▶noun [ mass noun ] Chemistry the existence of allotropes of an element, one of which is stable and the others metastable under all known conditions. DERIVATIVES monotrope noun ORIGIN early 20th cent.: from mono- ‘one ’ + Greek tropē ‘turning ’ + -y 3 .

Oxford Dictionary

monotropy

monotropy |məˈnɒtrəpi | ▶noun [ mass noun ] Chemistry the existence of allotropes of an element, one of which is stable and the others metastable under all known conditions. DERIVATIVES monotrope noun ORIGIN early 20th cent.: from mono- ‘one ’ + Greek tropē ‘turning ’ + -y 3 .

Duden Dictionary

monotrop

mo no trop Adjektiv Biologie |monotr o p |griechisch-lateinisch beschränkt anpassungsfähig

Monotropie

Mo no tro pie Substantiv, feminin Chemie , die |Monotrop ie |die Monotropie; Genitiv: der Monotropie nur in einer Richtung mögliche Umwandelbarkeit der Zustandsform eines Stoffes in eine andere