monopteron
noun
a classical building having a single outer colonnade surrounding a central structure or a courtyard.
monoptera
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pluralof monopteron.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Over our feet, like coveys of snipe in a bog, rose shoals of fish, of the genus monoptera, which have no other fins but their tail.
From Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne
