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carpellary
Variant of carpel
noun
- a simple pistil, regarded as a single ovule-bearing leaf or modified leaflike structure
- any of the segments of a compound pistil, usually having a single stigma
Related Forms:
- carpellary adjective
- carpellate adjective
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