carpel

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English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)pəl

Noun

carpel (plural carpels)

1. 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.

Translations

structural unit of a tispel

Czech: pestík (cs) m. Finn: emilehti (fi) Italian: carpello (it) m.

Japanese: 心皮 (ja) (しんぴ, shinpi) indian: carpelă (ro) f. Polish: słupek (pl) m. Spanish: carpelo (es) m.

References

• "carpel." The American Heritage® Science Dictionary. Houghton Mifflin Company. 23 Feb. 2007. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/carpel>.

Anagrams

• parcel
• placer