monocarpous, a.
(mɒnəʊˈkɑːpəs)
[f. mod.L. monocarp-us: see monocarp and -ous.]
1. Bot. = monocarpellary.
| 1731 Bailey vol. II, Monocarpous, a term apply'd to such plants as bear but one single fruit. 1856 Mayne Expos. Lex. 1876 Harley Mat. Med. (ed. 6) 603 Fruit monocarpous. 1882 Vines Sachs' Bot. 560 When the gynæceum of a flower consists of a single ovary only one fruit is formed, and the flower is said to be monocarpous. |
2. Bot. = monocarpic.
| 1830 Lindley Introd. Bot. iii. i. (1839) 475 Monocarpous: bearing fruit but once, and dying after fructification, as Wheat. 1842 Brande Dict. Sci., etc., Monocarpons [read Monocarpous]..is a term invented by De Candolle to designate what gardeners call annual plants. 1875 Bennett & Dyer Sachs' Bot. 806 The plant itself is also completely exhausted, all its disposable formative substances are given up to the seed and the fruit, and it dies off (monocarpous plants). |
3. Path. (See quot.)
| 1891 Syd. Soc. Lex., Monocarpous... In Medicine, formerly used to describe an eruption the spots of which were not close to each other but discrete. |