What is bearing fruit but once, and dying after fructification, as beans, maize, mustard, etc. Note: Annual and biennual herbs are monocarpic, so also some plants of longer duration, as the century plant called?

monocarpous — Bearing fruit but once, and dying after fructification, as beans, maize, mustard, etc. Note: Annual and biennual herbs are monocarpic, so also some plants of longer duration, as the century plant. (Webster's 1913.)