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Definition of Monocarp
1. Noun. A plant that bears fruit once and dies.
Definition of Monocarp
1. n. A monocarpic plant.
Definition of Monocarp
1. Noun. (botany) A monocarpic plant. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Monocarp
1. a plant that yields fruit only once before dying [n -S]
Medical Definition of Monocarp
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Monocarp
Literary usage of Monocarp
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"More appropriately called normal carbonate. monocarp ... [< monocarp + -pu».]
In bot. : (a) Producing fruit but once in its Me: said of annual plants. ..."
2. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1904)
"Can this form be the winter resting-state of a monocarp ? I know no instance,
however, exactly like it in the case of a so-called annual. ..."
3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1856)
"Where the flowering stem perishes together with tne °°gch'arac- where rhizomes
are produced with buds of an equally monocarp 3. Where the stem, collar, ..."
4. New Granada: Twenty Months in the Andes by Isaac Farwell Holton (1857)
"These gardens contain nothing but perennials, chiefly trees, for monocarp-' ous
plants can not be kept up where all labor is spasmodic. ..."
5. The National Standard Encyclopedia: A Dictionary of Literature, the Sciences (1888)
"He claimed the tin-one on the death of his father, but was defeated, made prisoner
and executed by orc^er of King James II., 1685. monocarp, mon'u-karp. ..."
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