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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Flowering and bearing fruit only once.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as monocarpous .

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Bearing fruit but once, and dying after fructification, as beans, maize, mustard, etc.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective botany (of a plant) That flowers and bears fruit only once before dying

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective dying after bearing fruit only once

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  • Each of the Rosettes of the plant are monocarpic which means that they are plants can be kept alive after flowering if the flowers are removed as soon as they are done blooming, before seed formation begins.

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