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Carpel
Meaning
Noun
●
In Botany:
A
constituent
part of a
flower
pistil
- the individual
female
reproductive organs
in a
flower
. A
carpel
is
composed
of an
ovary
, a
style
, and a
stigma
, although some
flower
s 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.
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Seed
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Rhymes
Carpal
Carpel
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