carpellary

Variant of carpel

noun

  1. a simple pistil, regarded as a single ovule-bearing leaf or modified leaflike structure
  2. any of the segments of a compound pistil, usually having a single stigma

Origin: ModL dim. < Gr karpos, fruit: see harvest

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