monopodium

English

Etymology

From mono- +‎ podium (“footstalk”).

Noun

monopodium (plural monopodiums or monopodia)

1. (botany) A single and continuous vegetable axis; opposed to sympodium.

Related terms

• sympodium
• monochasium

Translations

a single and continuous vegetable axis

• German: Monopodium, echte Hauptachse f

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “monopodium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)