Talk:monifier

Got this from Webster 1913 and the ety looks suspect. Could be an error for monifer:. Equinox ◑ 21:21, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

RFV discussion: February–March 2017
Could not find anything on this. DTLHS (talk) 20:45, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
 * If you look at the etymology, it's obvious that this should be monilifer. Given how similar "i" and "l" look in most fonts, a scanno or a misreading by humans would seem pretty likely. Chuck Entz (talk) 04:11, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Is "monilifer" used other than as part of a binomial name? DTLHS (talk) 06:07, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Monilifera is an obsolete genus of alga whose type species is now known as Cystoseira fibrosa. Google Books also shows Monilifer to be a subgenus of Stephanoprora (Trematoda), which means it was probably once considered a genus. DCDuring TALK 10:02, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
 * I did not find anything relevant on "monifier" in Google or BGC. Might it be that Webster 1913 contains a flop? --Hekaheka (talk) 14:11, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Everything online for Webster 1913 comes from a version, so human or OCR error in digitizing is always a possibility.
 * While that's strictly speaking a correct answer to his question, it's not relevant to the task at hand: monifier is defined as an English word for a "fossil fish", so we would need evidence of English usage with that definition before we could move the entry to monilifer after looking through about half of the 771 Google Scholar hits for monilifer, I've seen references to a couple of taxonomic names for fish species known from fossils and described before 1913, but I've yet to see anything to match the definition. Chuck Entz (talk) 14:59, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
 * I thought DTLHS was asking about monilifer in his post today, to attempt to salvage something from the research effort to correct the entry. DCDuring TALK 00:15, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
 * I know it could be included as a taxonomic name. I was asking if there was any hope of an English entry with more general usage. DTLHS (talk) 00:24, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

RFV failed. Entry deleted. — I.S.M.E.T.A. 14:21, 13 March 2017 (UTC)