Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having but one generation annually: said of the ordinary races of the domestic silkworm to distinguish them from those races having two or more generations.
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- adjective biology Having one
brood orgeneration in a year.
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Phratora vulgatissima has one generation per year (univoltine) in Sweden.
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