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carpel

A Dictionary of Biology | 2004 | Copyright

carpel The female reproductive organ of a flower. Typically it consists of a stigma, style, and ovary. It is thought to have evolved by the fusion of the two edges of a flattened megasporophyll (see sporophyll). Each flower may have one carpel (monocarpellary) or many (polycarpellary), either free (apocarpous) or fused together (syncarpous). See also pistil.

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carpel

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

car·pel / ˈkärpəl/ • n. Bot. the female reproductive organ of a flower, consisting of an ovary, a stigma, and usually a style. It may occur singly or as one of a group. DERIVATIVES: car·pel·lar·y / -ˌlerē/ adj.

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carpel

A Dictionary of Plant Sciences | 1998 | | Copyright

carpel One of the female reproductive organs of the flower, i.e. a unit of the gynoecium, comprising an ovary (containing 1 to many ovules borne on a placenta) and with a usually terminal style tipped by the stigma.

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carpel

World Encyclopedia | 2005 | Copyright

carpel Female reproductive part of a flowering plant. A carpel consists of a stigma, a style and an ovary. A group of carpels make up the gynoecium, the complete female reproductive structure within a flower.

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carpel

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

carpel (bot.) division of a compound pistil or fruit. XIX. — F. carpelle or modL. carpellum, f. Gr. karpós fruit (cf. HARVEST); see -EL 2.

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carpel

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

carpel •apple, chapel, chappal, Chappell, dapple, grapple, scrapple •scalpel •ample, trample •pineapple •carpal, carpel •example, sample •sepal •stemple, temple •maple, papal, staple •peepul, people, steeple •tradespeople • sportspeople •townspeople • workpeople •cripple, fipple, nipple, ripple, stipple, tipple, triple •dimple, pimple, simple, wimple •Oedipal • maniple • manciple •municipal •principal, principle •participle • multiple •archetypal, disciple, typal •prototypal •hopple, popple, stopple, topple •gospel •Constantinople, copal, nopal, opal, Opel •duple, pupal, pupil, scruple •quadruple • septuple • sextuple •quintuple • octuple •couple, supple •crumple, rumple, scrumple •syncopal • episcopal • purple

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