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Floral part of short Persian cover possibly left
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carpel
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.)).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context botany English) One of the individual 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) ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a simple pistil or one element of a compound pistil
Usage examples of carpel.
The three small dots close to it represented the inner rocky worlds of Carpel, Patpel, and Davpel.