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carpels

carpels is the plural of carpel.

Meaning of carpel

Noun

carpel (plural carpels)

  1. 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.
    Synonyms:
    carpophyll

Questions about carpels

What is carpels the plural of?
Carpels is the plural of carpel.

Words near carpels in the dictionary

  1. carpellodic
  2. carpellody
  3. carpelloid
  4. carpellum
  5. carpeloid
  6. carpels
  7. Carpen
  8. Carpendeit
  9. Carpender
  10. Carpenders Park
  11. carpent

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