adjective Having a single structure; not composite or complex; undivided, unitary.
adjective Of an eye: (supposedly) having pigment on only the posterior surface of the iris and not the anterior surface, and thus appearing blue; this was later found to be inaccurate, as eye colour is due to the amount of pigment in the anterior surface of the iris; also, of eye pigmentation: present only on the posterior surface of the iris; and of a person: having eyes with this form of pigmentation.
adjective Of a circuit or device: involving signals which travel in one direction at a time; unidirectional.
adjective Of a polyploid organism: having one dominant allele at a given locus on all homologous chromosomes.
adjective Of a polyploid organism: having one dominant allele at a given locus on all homologous chromosomes.
adjective Synonym of heterozygous (“of an organism: having two different alleles in a given gene”).
adjective Of a word: having no (derivational) affixes; simple, monomorphemic, uncompounded.
adjective Of an apartment (or, sometimes, another type of property): having only one floor or storey; single-storey.