Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In zoology, having only one at a birth; uniparous, as the human species usually is; laying but one egg before incubating, as sundry birds.
- In botany, bearing progeny (fruiting) only once, as in annuals or biennials: same as
monocarpous . Alsomonotokous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Bearing fruit but once; monocarpic.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Uniparous; laying a single egg.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Bearing
fruit only once;monocarpic . - adjective zoology Laying a single
egg ;uniparous .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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