Botany. Bearing fruit or flowers twice in a year.

Botany. Of a plant: fruitful; spec. bearing fruit or flowers several times in the course of a year. rare.

Thrice-bearing; bearing fruit or flowers thrice a year.

Chiefly Botany. Originally (of a plant): monocarpic. Later also (of an animal, esp. a fossil coral): reproducing only once and then dying.

= polycarpic, adj. 1. Obsolete. rare.

Bearing fruit many times, as a perennial plant; polycarpous.

Of a plant: bearing fruit only once during its life cycle.

Of a plant: flowering and fruiting several or many times during its life cycle. Contrasted with monocarpic, adj.

= monocarpic, adj.

Botany. = polycarpic, adj. 1. Obsolete. rare.

Botany. = monocarpic, adj. Obsolete. rare.

Of a plant or (occasionally) a particular stem on a plant: producing flowers and fruit only once; = monocarpic, adj.

= polycarpic, adj. 1.

= polycarpic, adj. 1.