Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of carpel is as below...

Orange :: Orange (n.) The fruit of a tree of the genus Citrus (C. Aurantium). It is usually round, and consists of pulpy carpels, commonly ten in number, inclosed in a leathery rind, which is easily separable, and is reddish yellow when ripe..

Marginicidal :: Marginicidal (a.) Dehiscent by the separation of united carpels; -- said of fruits.

Carpophyll :: Carpophyll (n.) A leaf converted into a fruit or a constituent portion of a fruit; a carpel. [See Illust. of Gymnospermous..

Coccus :: Coccus (n.) One of the separable carpels of a dry fruit.

Coelospermous :: Coelospermous (a.) Hollow-seeded; having the ventral face of the seedlike carpels incurved at the ends, as in coriander seed..

Ventral :: Ventral (a.) Of or pertaining to that surface of a carpel, petal, etc., which faces toward the center of a flower..

Carpellum :: Carpellum (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..

Torus :: Torus (n.) The receptacle, or part of the flower on which the carpels stand..

Pistil :: Pistil (n.) The seed-bearing organ of a flower. It consists of an ovary, containing the ovules or rudimentary seeds, and a stigma, which is commonly raised on an elongated portion called a style. When composed of one carpel a pistil is simple; when composed of several, it is compound. See Illust. of Flower, and Ovary..

Columella :: Columella (n.) An axis to which a carpel of a compound pistil may be attached, as in the case of the geranium; or which is left when a pod opens..

Mericarp :: Mericarp (n.) One carpel of an umbelliferous fruit. See Cremocarp.

Pentachenium :: Pentachenium (n.) A dry fruit composed of five carpels, which are covered by an epigynous calyx and separate at maturity..

Syncategorematic :: Syncarpous (a.) Composed of several carpels consolidated into one ovary.

Tetracoccous :: Tetracoccous (a.) Having four cocci, or carpels..

Pentacoccous :: Pentacoccous (a.) Composed of five united carpels with one seed in each, as certain fruits..

Prunus :: Prunus (n.) A genus of trees with perigynous rosaceous flowers, and a single two-ovuled carpel which usually becomes a drupe in ripening..

Tetracarpel :: Tetracarpel (a.) Composed of four carpels.

Pome :: Pome (n.) A fruit composed of several cartilaginous or bony carpels inclosed in an adherent fleshy mass, which is partly receptacle and partly calyx, as an apple, quince, or pear..

Capsule :: Capsule (n.) a dry fruit or pod which is made up of several parts or carpels, and opens to discharge the seeds, as, the capsule of the poppy, the flax, the lily, etc..

Apocarpous :: Apocarpous (a.) Either entirely or partially separate, as the carpels of a compound pistil; -- opposed to syncarpous..

Random Fonts

Most Popular