Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
monospermous .
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- adjective having a single seed
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Examples
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In the 'Revue Horticole,' 1867, p. 382, mention is made of a bush which produces these double nuts each year -- in fact, it never produces any single-seeded fruit.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Larger, single-seeded fruit were not consumed by smaller frugivores that still thrive in degraded forests, echoing Corlett's own observation of barren South China forests that fruit to no avail.
The annotated budak 2008
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The single-seeded fruit are spherical, wrinkled and black upon maturity, having started out greenish-yellow.
Find Me A Cure 2008
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The spot where he bathed is now a place of pilgrimage named Suppatitthita, and here he deposited the dish on the bank before descending into the water. had been the dress of many hundreds of thousands of Future Buddhas before him; and sitting down with his face to the east, he made the whole of the thick, sweet milk-rice into forty-nine pellets of the size of the fruit of the single-seeded palmyra-tree, and ate it.
The Attainment of Buddhaship. I. The Buddha. Translated from the Introduction to the Jtaka (i. 685). 1909
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In the apple and pear (Fig. 114, _I_), however, the carpels are more or less grown together; and in the cherry, peach, etc., there is but a single carpel giving rise to a single-seeded stone-fruit (drupe) (Fig. 114, _E_,
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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