Definitions

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

  • adjective Flowering and fruiting more than once.
  • adjective Having fruit or pistils with two or more carpels.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, producing fruit many times or indefinitely: applied by De Candolle to perennial herbs. Compare monocarpous .

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

  • adjective Bearing fruit repeatedly, or year after year.
  • adjective Having several pistils in one flower.

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

  • adjective botany Bearing fruit repeatedly, or year after year.
  • adjective botany Having several pistils in one flower.

Etymologies

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poly- + -carpic

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