Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A main axis of a plant, such as the trunk of a spruce, that maintains a single line of growth, giving off lateral branches.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A form of table having only a central support, used by the ancient Romans.
- noun In botany, an axis of growth which continues to extend at the apex in the direction of previous growth, while lateral structures of like kind are produced beneath it in acropetal succession.
- noun Compare
sympodium and dichotomy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A single and continuous vegetable axis; -- opposed to
sympodium .
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- noun botany A single and continuous
vegetable axis ; opposed tosympodium .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin, from Late Latin monopodius, one-footed, from Greek monopous : mono-, mono- + pous, pod-, foot; see ped- in Indo-European roots.]
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Latin. See monopody.
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Examples
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Egyptian tables were round, square, or oblong; the former were generally used during their repasts, and consisted of a circular flat summit, supported like the _monopodium_ of the Romans, on a single shaft, or leg, in the centre, or by the figure of a man, intended to represent a captive.
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