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(botany) (of a plant) That flowers and bears fruit only once before dying..
A nire accurate division of plants, as connected with flowering and fructification, is into monocarpic, or those which flower but once, and perish; and into polycarpic, or those which flower and ripen seeds several times before the entire plant, root and branch, perish.
Use monocarpic when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Monocarpic means (botany) (of a plant) That flowers and bears fruit only once before dying..
Common synonyms include monocarpian, monocarpous.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
A nire accurate division of plants, as connected with flowering and fructification, is into monocarpic, or those which flower but once, and perish; and into polycarpic, or those which flower and ripen seeds several times before the entire plant, root and branch, perish.
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