| monocarp | <botany> A monocarpic plant. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| monocarpellary | <botany> Consisting of a single carpel, as the fruit of the pea, cherry, and almond. Origin: Mono- + carpellary. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| monocarpic | <botany> Flowering and fruiting only once during its life span. (09 Oct 1997) |
| monocarpous | <botany> Bearing fruit but once, and dying after fructification, as beans, maize, mustard, etc. Annual and biennual herbs are monocarpic, so also some plants of longer duration, as the century plant. Origin: Mono- + Gr. Fruit: cf. F. Monocarpe. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |