uniparous, a.
(juːˈnɪpərəs)
[f. mod.L. ūniparus (whence F. unipare, It. uniparo, Sp. uniparo): see uni- and -parous.]
1. Bearing or producing one at a birth; characterized by this kind of parturition.
| 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. vi. 298 For animals multifidous..there are but two that are uniparous, that is, Men and Elephants. 1662 Petty Treat. Taxes & Contrib. xii. 58 'Tis also the second choice out of the young of multiparous Cattle taken in specie,..or else a Composition in Money for the Uniparous. 1744 Monro Compar. Anat. 37 Those of the uniparous Kind have them placed between the posterior Extremities. 1787 Phil. Trans. LXXVII. 358 The females of the human species, though most commonly uniparous. 1839–47 Todd's Cycl. Anat. III. 315 The oviducts are shorter..in the uniparous Kangaroo,..than in the multiparous Opossums. 1856 Grindon Life iv. (1875) 41 Rousseau ingeniously urges..that woman is a uniparous animal. 1859 Owen Lect. Classif. Mammalia 56 The mastodons, megatheria,..and diprotodons, are uniparous. |
2. Bot. Of a cyme: Having only one axis or branch; developing a single axis at each branching.
| 1839 Lindley Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) 160 [An] axis of uniparous, that is one-peduncled, cymes. 1878 M. T. Masters Henfrey's Bot. 318 The inflorescence..is probably a uniparous scorpioid cyme. 1887 Bentley Man. Bot. (ed. 5) 215 The terms helicoid and scorpioid are thus used by us indifferently to indicate the same form of unilateral, monochasial, or uniparous cyme. |