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intercarpellary

intercarpellary adjective: between carpels.

Adjective

intercarpellary (not comparable)

  1. Between carpels
    • We also suggest that the formation of pollen octads may be selectively advantageous when pollinator visits are infrequent, although this would only be applicable if multiple ovules could be fertilized by each octad; since the flowers are apocarpous, this would require an extragynoecial compitum to...2015 December 3, “Phylogenetic Reconstruction, Morphological Diversification and Generic Delimitation of Disepalum (Annonaceae)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of intercarpellary

From inter- + carpellary.

Questions about intercarpellary

What does intercarpellary mean?
Intercarpellary means between carpels.
What part of speech is intercarpellary?
Intercarpellary is an adjective.

Words near intercarpellary in the dictionary

  1. intercardinal directions
  2. intercardinally
  3. intercarinal
  4. intercarotid
  5. intercarpal
  6. intercarpellary
  7. intercarrier
  8. intercartel
  9. intercartilaginous
  10. intercaruncle
  11. intercaruncles

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