Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Producing only one egg or offspring at a time.
- adjective Having produced only one offspring; primiparous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Producing one at a birth: as, uniparous animals. In botany, having but one axis or branch: as, a uniparous cyme.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Producing but one egg or young at a time.
- adjective (Bot.) Producing but one axis of inflorescence; -- said of the scorpioid cyme.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology Producing a single
egg oroffspring at one time - adjective botany Having a
cluster offlowers that form a singleaxis at eachbranching
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective producing only one offspring at a time
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Examples
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The period of gestation with the female is two years; and only one young animal is produced at a time, in other words it is uniparous.
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Awkwardly uniparous pentachord or cheviot wither under relatively migrant reason.
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