Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Arranged in one vertical row, rank, or series, as the flowers in the spike of some species of Spiranthes; uniserial: opposed to distichous.

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

  • adjective (Bot.) Arranged in a single row on one side of an axis, as the flowers in grasses of the tribe Chloridæ.

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  • adjective botany Arranged in a single row on one side of an axis.

Etymologies

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See monostich.

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