† monopyrenousadj.
Botany. Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
Of a fruit: having only one stone or seed.
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1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Monopyrenous Fruit, such Fruit of a Plant, as contains in it only one Kernel, or Seed.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 753/1 Monopyrenous, containing one stone.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1706- to make face to
- to make fair weather
- to make fair weather of
- to make faith
- to make familiar with
- to make familiarly to cut a figure
- to make fashion
- to make fast
- to make feast
- to make feet for children's stockings
- to make fence
- to make few words
- to make fidelity
- to make fight
- to make finance
- to make fine
- to make fine and ransom
- to make fire
- to make firmance to
- to make fish of one and flesh of another
- to make fish of one and fowl of another
- to make fizgigs
- to make flying
- to make for
- to make force