carpel
pronunciation
How to pronounce carpel in British English:
UK [ˈkɑ:pl]
How to pronounce carpel in American English:
US [ˈkɑrpl]
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- Noun:
- a simple pistil or one element of a compound pistil
Word Origin
- carpel (n.)
- 1835, from Modern Latin carpellum (1817 in French), a diminutive form from Greek karpos "fruit" (also "returns, profit"), literally "that which is plucked," from PIE root *kerp- "to gather, pluck, harvest" (see harvest (n.)).
Example
- 1. Carpel the female reproductive organ of a flowering plant .
- 2. The bad news , you got carpel tunnel .
- 3. Carpel 1 , inserted at base of hypanthium , usually exserted from fleshy hypanthium when mature .
- 4. Ovaries half-inferior or nearly inferior ; ovules numerous in each carpel .
- 5. A gynoecium with only one carpel is called monocarpellary ; with two or more separate carpel , apocarpous ; and with fused carpels syncarpous .