Monopodial Definition

Monopodial Sentence Examples

• The polyps may be solitary, or form colonies, which may be of the spreading or encrusting type, or arborescent, and then always of monopodial growth and budding.

• For the most part the branching is monopodial.

• The most striking characteristic of the majority of the Coniferales is the regular manner of the monopodial branching and the pyramidal shape.

• As in Gymnosperms, branching is monopodial; dichotomy or the forking of the growing point into two equivalent branches which replace the main stem, is absent both in the case able variety in form (see Leaf), but are generally small in comparison with the size of the plant; exceptions occur in some Monocotyledons, e.g.