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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. | ||
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