carpel en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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- /ˈkɑː(ɹ)pəl/
Etymology
1835, borrowed from French carpelle, from New Latin carpellum, a diminutive of Ancient Greek κᾰρπός (kărpós, “fruit”), from Proto-Indo-European *kerp- (“to pluck, harvest”).
Meanings
- A constituent part of a flower pistil: the 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. A pistil may be composed of a single carpel or of several carpels fused together.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| carpels | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
carpellate · paracarpel · carpellary · acarpellous
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Translations (16)
es carpelo (structural unit of a pistil) · it carpello (structural unit of a pistil) · pl owocolistek (structural unit of a pistil) · ro carpelă (structural unit of a pistil) · ca carpel (structural unit of a pistil) · ja 心皮 (structural unit of a pistil) · hu termőlevél (structural unit of a pistil) · fi emilehti (structural unit of a pistil) · el καρπόφυλλο (structural unit of a pistil) · fr carpelle (structural unit of a pistil) · pt carpelo (structural unit of a pistil) · nl vruchtblad (structural unit of a pistil) · ru плодоли́стик (structural unit of a pistil) · cmn 心皮 (structural unit of a pistil) · cs pestík (structural unit of a pistil) · mk оплодно ливче (structural unit of a pistil)