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carpel
CIDE DICTIONARY
carpel, n. [NL. carpellum, fr. Gr. karpo`s fruit.].
A simple pistil or single-celled ovary or seed vessel, or one of the parts of a compound pistil, ovary, or seed vessel. See Illust of Carpaphore. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
carpel, n. Bot. the female reproductive organ of a flower, consisting of a stigma, style, and ovary.
Derivative
carpellary adj.
Etymology
F carpelle or mod.L carpellum f. Gk karpos fruit
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