Definition of "uninodal" [uninodal]

• Having one node; having one point that remains at rest while adjacent points are vibrating.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Spring-shoots uninodal in some, multinodal in other species."
• "All the species, like the Soft Pines, are uninodal and the cones are dehiscent at maturity, but the trend toward the serotinous species is shown in the occasional appearance of the oblique cone as a varietal form of a few species, and in the persistent cone of the last two species of this group."
• "The second group, the Australes, contains species with small ray-pits, cones dehiscent at maturity and spring-shoots gradually changing, among the species, from a uninodal to a multinodal form."