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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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As a walnut tree ages, the development pattern changes from monopodial to sympodial.
This model is characterized by a single monopodial trunk and plagiotropic, indeterminate branches.
Other types of branching, such the monopodial or sympodial types, are variants of this.
An unusual monopodial plant, having erect slender stems with a few narrow leaves, the orchid Arundina gramini folia is originally from the forests of Asia.
Two plants were monopodial, while one tree possessed a 60-cm-long secondary leader that had developed about 1 m above soil level.
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.

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