monopodium

noun

mono·​po·​di·​um

plural monopodia

-ēə

: a main or primary axis that continues its original line of growth giving off successive axes or lateral branches (as in the excurrent trunk of some coniferous tree) compare sympodium

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from mon- + -podium

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