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Webster 1913 Edition
Monocarpous
{
Monˊo-car′pic
,Monˊo-car′pous
, }Adj.
[
Mono-
+ Gr. [GREEK] fruit: cf. F. monocarpe
.] (Bot.)
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.