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What does monopodial mean?

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Adjective
  1. (botany) Having a monopodium or a single and continuous axis, as a birch twig or a cornstalk.
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Other types of branching, such the monopodial or sympodial types, are variants of this.
The upright aerial stems exhibit a monopodial branching pattern, having one main axis of growth.
The tree with the nest was short with numerous forks and absence of its natural monopodial growth pattern, differing from other Australian pines adjacent to it.
Two plants were monopodial, while one tree possessed a 60-cm-long secondary leader that had developed about 1 m above soil level.
Rhynia is also a vascular plant, with somewhat monopodial branching to a height of about 18 cm.
As a walnut tree ages, the development pattern changes from monopodial to sympodial.

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