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carpellate

carpellate adjective: having functional carpels (and lacking stamens).

Adjective

carpellate (not comparable)

  1. Having functional carpels (and lacking stamens).
    Synonyms:
    pistillate

Synonyms of carpellate

Origin of carpellate

From carpel + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Words formed from carpellate

Questions about carpellate

What does carpellate mean?
Carpellate means having functional carpels (and lacking stamens).
What part of speech is carpellate?
Carpellate is an adjective.

Words near carpellate in the dictionary

  1. carped the diem
  2. carpeing the diem
  3. carpel
  4. carpella
  5. carpellary
  6. carpellate
  7. carpellodic
  8. carpellody
  9. carpelloid
  10. carpellum
  11. carpeloid

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