Hypertext Webster Gateway: "monocarpic"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Monocarpic \Mon`o*car"pic\, Monocarpous \Mon`o*car"pous\, a.
[Mono- + Gr. ? fruit: cf. F. monocarpe.] (Bot.)
Bearing fruit but once, and dying after fructification, as
beans, maize, mustard, etc.

Note: Annual and biennual herbs are monocarpic, so also some
plants of longer duration, as the century plant.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

monocarpic
adj : dying after bearing fruit only once


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