Meaning & use
monoplane
An airplane with a single main set of wings, one on each side of the fuselage.
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Early aviation relied on biplanes before the monoplane became the standard design.
The museum's oldest monoplane still has its original wooden propeller.
A note on using this word
Monoplane contrasts with biplane, an older design with two stacked sets of wings.
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