\Mon`o*car"pic\, Monocarpous \Mon`o*car"pous\, a.
[Mono- + Gr. ? fruit: cf. F. monocarpe.] (Bot.)
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.