monoinsular

English

Etymology

From mono- +‎ insular.

Adjective

monoinsular (comparative more monoinsular, superlative most monoinsular)

1. Consisting of, or pertaining to, a single island.
   • 1977, Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society, vol. 22, Issue 3, p. 414:

     Xyleborus simillimus appears to be a monoinsular endemic and forms a complex with two or three other species.

   • 2023, Peter Marshall, “Notes from the Atlantic Archipelago”, in Literary Review, number 524, page 41:

     ‘Great Britain’ may indeed be the name of an island, but, as Albinia rightly points out, the British polity is not, and never has been, mono-insular.