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monocarpous
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monocarpous, 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."
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