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Definition of Carpel

1. Noun. A simple pistil or one element of a compound pistil.

Definition of Carpel

1. n. 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.

Definition of Carpel

1. Noun. 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. ¹

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Definition of Carpel

1. a simple pistil [n -S]

Medical Definition of Carpel

1. An organ (generally believed to be a modified foliar unit) at the centre of a flower, bearing one or more ovules and having its margins fused together or with other carpels to enclose the ovule in an ovary, and consisting also of a stigma and usually a style. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Carpel

Literary usage of Carpel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"573), or by openings in tubular prolongations of the pollen sacs (fig. 574), or sometimes by hinged valves. carpel General character. —The carpel is a ..."

2. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"A carpel may lx> a pistil of itself, either the only one of a blossom or one ... The morphological conception of an uncombined carpel is that of the blade ..."

3. A Course of Practical Instruction in Botany by Frederick Orpen Bower, Sydney Howard Vines (1885)
"carpel AND OVULES. TV. The following preparations must be made from materials ... The carpel, having a structure not unlike that of an ordinary leaf. ..."

4. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1905)
"A slight ridge on the inner edge of each margin of the carpel prevents for a time the escape of the twisting endocarp. The placenta separates, forming ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In marginal placentation the part of the carpel bearing the placenta is ... As the placenta is formed on each margin of tbo carpel it is essentially double. ..."

6. Practical Botany for Beginners by Frederick Orpen Bower (1894)
"carpel AND OVULES. IV. The following preparations must be made from materials ... The carpel, having a structure not unlike that of an ordinary leaf, ..."

7. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1853)
"Ovaries in which the carpel is single are for the most part the result of the ... A single carpel posterior may be explained in an analogous manner. ..."

8. Morphology of Angiosperms: (Morphology of Spermatophytes. Part II) by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1903)
"The carpel set has been called collectively the " gynoecium,'* a term that also should be dropped ... The carpel is the organ most intimately related to the ..."

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