uniparous

American

[yoo-nip-er-uhs] / yuˈnɪp ər əs /

adjective

Zoology. producing only one egg or offspring at a time.
Botany. (of a cyme) producing only one axis at each branching.

uniparous British

/ juːˈnɪpərəs /

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

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Etymology

Origin of uniparous

From the New Latin word ūniparus, dating back to 1640–50. See uni-, -parous

Example Sentences

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The cyme, according to its development, has been characterized as biparous or uniparous.

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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.

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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.

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