What does "monarch" mean?

Monarch: One superior to all others of the same kind; as, an oak is called the monarch of the forest.

Additional senses

  1. 2.A patron deity or presiding genius. Come, thou, monarch of the vine, Plumpy Bacchus. Shak.
  2. 3.(Zoöl.) A very large red and black butterfly (Danais Plexippus); -- called also milkweed butterfly.
  3. 4.Superior to others; preëminent; supreme; ruling. "Monarch savage." Pope.

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