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monocarpic
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective monocarpic has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
monocarpic, a. [Mono- + Gr. fruit: cf. F. monocarpe.].
Bearing fruit but once, and dying after fructification, as beans, maize, mustard, etc. [1913 Webster]
" Annual and biennual herbs are monocarpic, so also some plants of longer duration, as the century plant."
[1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
monocarpic, adj. (also monocarpous) Bot. bearing fruit only once.
Etymology
MONO- + Gk karpos fruit
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