monocarpn.
/ˈmɒnə(ʊ)kɑːp/, U.S. /ˈmɑnəˌkɑrp/ Botany.
1. A monocarpic plant. rare before late 20th cent.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > plant that bears fruit > [noun] > of specific form or a specific number of times
angiocarpian1839
monocarp1846
1846 B. H. Smart Walker's Pronouncing Dict. Monocarp, a plant that bears fruit but once.
1980 Oecologia 47 171 (title) Variation in generation time in Frasera speciosa (Gentianaceae), a long-lived perennial monocarp.
1994 Ecology 75 359 In Sanicula arctopoides, a perennial monocarp, removal of inflorescences (umbels)..led to no loss of maternal reproduction.
2. In many trees of the family Annonaceae: each of the separate carpels (often arranged in bundles) which form the fruit. Opposed to syncarp.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > [noun] > compound or aggregate fruit > part of collective fruit
clove1634
grain1674
acinus1707
drupel1835
drupeole1866
drupelet1880
fruitlet1882
fructule1885
monocarp1952
1952 Brittonia 7 395 The fruits are hitherto unknown; the monocarps are ellipsoid-pyriform.
1971 B. Verdcourt in W. B. Turrill & E. M. Redhead Flora Trop. E. Afr. V. 179 Annonaceae... Fruit either consisting of 1–several separate fleshy or somewhat woody sessile or stipitate monocarps, or syncarpous with numerous 1-seeded fruiting carpels or 1-locular and many-seeded.
1995 Brittonia 47 248 Cardiopetalum surinamense is removed from Froesiodendron and reassigned to Cardiopetalum on the basis of its connate petals, dehiscent monocarps, and seeds with bilobed arils.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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