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uniparous
[yoo-nip-er-uhs]
adjective
Zoology.producing only one egg or offspring at a time.
Botany.(of a cyme) producing only one axis at each branching.
uniparous
/ ːˈɪəə /
adjective
(of certain animals) producing a single offspring at each birth
(of a woman) having borne only one child
botany (of a cyme) giving rise to only one branch from each flowering stem
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of uniparous1
Example Sentences
In the uniparous cyme a number of floral axes are successively developed one from the other, but the axis of each successive generation, instead of producing a pair of bracts, produces only one.
The importance of these percentages is impaired by the fact that they involve only five uniparous families and ten sterile ones, and that of these latter only five were sprung from first cousins.
The cyme, according to its development, has been characterized as biparous or uniparous.
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