👉 The term "monogastric" is a term used in linguistics to describe the grammatical structure of words that have only one morpheme (a single phoneme) and which do not form a complete word. Monogastrics are typically formed by combining two or more morphemes into a single word, with the first morpheme serving as the base for the rest of the word. For example, in English, "cat" is a monogastric because it consists of only