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Another word for singly

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Adverb

  1. Without the presence or aid of another

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    include

  2. As a separate unit

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    include

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Another word for singly

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Sentence Examples

  • Rare bulbs may be wrapped singly in tissue paper for storing.

  • In high quality tobaccos the leaves are " primed " or picked singly as they ripen, but in the great bulk of American tobaccos the whole plant is cut close to the ground when the middle leaves are about ripe.

  • The male sexual cells are produced singly in the terminal cells of branches.

  • The firs are distinguished from the pines and larches by having their needle-like leaves placed singly on the shoots, instead of growing in clusters from a sheath on a dwarf branch.

  • The tentacles may be scattered singly round the margin of the umbrella (" monerenematous ") or arranged in tufts (" lophonematous "); in form they may be simple or branched (Cladonemid type); in structure they may be hollow (" coelomerinthous "); or solid (" pycnomerinthous ").

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