monoschizotomous

English

Adjective

monoschizotomous

1. (paleontology, malacology) Furcating from a single point.
   • 1939, Publication:

     ... (one of which was inked in by Buckman and shows in his photograph, giving an erroneous impression of quadrifurcation). The furcation is monoschizotomous and very regular.

   • 1983 June 2, Ulrich Lehmann, G. Hillmer, Fossil Invertebrates, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 164:

     Monoschizotomous, i.e. ribs bifurcating from one point. The following are distinguished according to the differentiation of the sutural lobe : (a) Stephanoceratidae with a suspensive ('hanging') sutural lobe; (b) […]

Coordinate terms

• dischizotomous, polyschizotomous