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- | Abscission, (from Latin abscindere, from ab- ‘off, away’ + scindere ‘to cut’) is the shedding of a body part. | + | * **Abscission**, (from Latin abscindere, from ab- ‘off, away’ + scindere ‘to cut’) is the shedding of a body part. |
- | Senescence, the biological processes of a living organism approaching an advanced age. | + | * **Monocarpic plants** are those that flower, set seeds and then die. Other terms with the same meaning are hapaxanth and semelparous. |
+ | * **Polycarpic plants** are those that flower, set seeds and grow fruit many times. Other term with the same meaning is iteroparous. |