Medical Definition of Monocarpous
1.
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)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monocarpous
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