monogoneutic

adjective

mono·​go·​neu·​tic

: having only one brood in a year

Word History

Etymology

mon- + (assumed) Greek goneutos (verbal of Greek goneuein to produce, beget, from goneus one that begets, progenitor, father, from gonos offspring) + English -ic

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