Monocarp (Noun)
Meaning
A plant that bears fruit once and dies.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The agave is an example of a monocarp, putting out a tall stalk of flowers after many years and then dying.
- Some species of bamboo are monocarps, flowering and producing seeds only once before dying.
- The rare and exotic corpse flower is a monocarp, blooming for just one night before wilting and dying.
- Monocarps have fascinated botanists for centuries, with their unique life cycle of growth, flowering, and death.
- The pineapples that grow in the garden are monocarps, producing a single fruit and then beginning to decline and die.