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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

MONOCARPIC; MONOCARPOUS

Mon `o *car "pic, Mon `o *car "pous, a. Etym: [Mono- + Gr. monocarpe.](Bot. )

Defn: Bearing fruit but once, and dying after fructification, as beans, maize, mustard, etc.

Note: Annual and biennual herbs are monocarpic, so also some plants of longer duration, as the century plant.

New American Oxford Dictionary

monocarpic

mon o car pic |ˌmänōˈkärpik ˌmɑnoʊˈkɑrpɪk |(also monocarpous |-pəs |) ▶adjective Botany (of a plant ) flowering only once and then dying. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from mono- ‘single ’ + Greek karpos ‘fruit ’ + -ic .

Oxford Dictionary

monocarpic

monocarpic |ˌmɒnə (ʊ )ˈkɑːpɪk | ▶adjective Botany (of a plant ) flowering only once and then dying. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from mono- ‘single ’ + Greek karpos ‘fruit ’ + -ic .