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carpel
[ kahr-puhl ]
noun
, Botany.
- a simple pistil, or a single member of a compound pistil.
carpel
/ ˈkɑːpɪˌleɪt; ˈkɑːpəl /
noun
- the female reproductive organ of flowering plants, consisting of an ovary, style (sometimes absent), and stigma. The carpels are separate or fused to form a single pistil
carpel
/ kär′pəl /
- One of the individual female reproductive organs in a flower. A carpel is composed of an ovary, a style, and a stigma, although some flowers have carpels without a distinct style. In origin, carpels are leaves (megasporophylls) that have evolved to enclose the ovules. The term pistil is sometimes used to refer to a single carpel or to several carpels fused together.
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Derived Forms
- carpellate, adjective
- ˈcarpellary, adjective
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Other Words From
- car·pel·lar·y [kahr, -p, uh, -ler-ee], adjective
- inter·carpel·lary adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of carpel1
1810–20; < New Latin carpellum, equivalent to Greek karp ( ós ) fruit + Latin -ellum diminutive suffix
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Word History and Origins
Origin of carpel1
C19: from New Latin carpellum, from Greek karpos fruit
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Example Sentences
A pod-like fruit composed of a solitary carpel and usually splitting open by both sutures (Leguminosae).
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The follicle is a dry unilocular many-seeded fruit, formed from one carpel and dehiscing by the ventral suture.
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From the back of each carpel grows a wing, converting the fruit into two 1-seeded, at length separable samaras or keys.
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Also, instead of a perigynous disk, there are usually little scales on the receptacle, one behind each carpel.
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A dry dehiscent fruit composed of more than one carpel; the spore-case of Hepatic, etc.
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