1. a plant that flowers and produces fruit only once before dying
Usage: botanical

Examples

• Bamboo is a famous example of a monocarp that may live for decades before flowering once and dying.
• The century plant is a monocarp that blooms spectacularly after many years of growth.
• Many annual plants are monocarps, completing their entire life cycle in one growing season.
• Rice is a monocarp that produces seeds once before the plant dies.
• The botanist studied the reproductive strategy of monocarps in desert environments.
• Unlike perennial flowers, a monocarp invests all its energy into a single reproductive event.