Meanings
- not comparablebiology(of a plant) That flowers and bears fruit only once before dying.
A nire accurate division of plants, as connected with flowering and fructification, is into monocarpic, or those which flower but once, and perish; and into polycarpic, or those which flower and ripen seeds several times before the entire plant, root and branch, perish.
1839 July 27, Robert Dickson, “Contributions to the Natural Theology of the Vegetable Kingdom”, in The Church of England Magazine, volume 7, number 175, page 52Synonyms: monocarpian, monocarpous
Synonyms & antonyms
adjective(of a plant) That flowers and bears fruit only once before dying.
Origin
From mono- + -carpic. Analyzable as monocarp + -ic.
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