{ Mon`o*car"pic (?), Mon`o*car"pous (?), } a. [Mono- + Gr. &?; fruit: cf. F. monocarpe.] (Bot.) Bearing fruit but once, and dying after fructification, as beans, maize, mustard, etc.

&fist; Annual and biennual herbs are monocarpic, so also some plants of longer duration, as the century plant.