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polyˈcarpic, a. Bot. [f. as next + -ic.] a. = polycarpous a. a. †b. = polycarpous a. b. Obs. rare.
1849Balfour Man. Bot. §634 Polycarpic,..those which flower and fruit several times before the entire plant dies. 1858Mayne Expos. Lex., Polycarpicus,..applied by de Candolle to plants that bear fruit many times during their existence. Applied by Bartling to a Class..in which the ovaries are often in indefinite number: polycarpic. 1909Groom & Balfour tr. Warming's Oecol. Plants ii. 6 These plants are divided into monocarpic and polycarpic: the former produce flower and fruit (or spores) once, and then die; the latter may produce fruit repeatedly before death claims them. 1951McLean & Ivimey-Cook Textbk. Theoret. Bot. I. xxi. 834 The common factor in all perennials is that they are polycarpic, that is to say, they flower and fruit repeatedly. |