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Webster 1913 Edition


Monodelphia


Monˊo-del′phi-a

,
Noun.
pl.
[NL., fr. Gr.
μόνοσ
single +
δελφύσ
the womb.]
(Zool.)
The group that includes all ordinary or placental mammals; the Placentalia. See
Mammalia
.