polycarpic

English

Etymology

poly- +‎ -carpic

Adjective

polycarpic (not comparable)

(botany) Bearing fruit repeatedly, or year after year.
(botany) Having several carpels in one flower.

Synonyms

polycarpous

Coordinate terms

monocarp
monocarpic
polycarp

Translations

bearing fruit repeatedly, or year after year

Manx: yl-vessagh

having several carpels in one flower

French: polycarpellé (fr)

References

polycarpic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for polycarpic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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