Carpel meaning

kär'pəl
One of the structural units of a pistil, representing a modified, ovule-bearing leaf.
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A simple pistil, regarded as a single ovule-bearing leaf or modified leaflike structure.
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Any of the segments of a compound pistil, usually having a single stigma.
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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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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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Origin of carpel

New Latin carpellum from Greek karpos fruit kerp- in Indo-European roots

Sentence Examples

  • Opposite each carpel is a small scale which functions as a nectary.

  • This is seen in cases where the margins of the carpel do not unite, but remain separate, and consequently two placentas are formed in place of one.

  • 92), quadrilocular, quinquelocular, or multilocular, according as it is formed by two, three, four, five or many carpels, each carpel corresponding to a single cell.

  • The pistil consists of a single carpel with its ovary, style, stigma and solitary ovule or twin ovules.

  • Each carpel has its own ovary, style (when present), and stigma, and may be regarded as formed by a folded leaf, the upper surface of which is turned inwards towards the axis, and the lower outwards, while from its margins are developed one or more ovules.

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