Look up: Carpel


  1. carpel
    A unit of the pistil; it is evolutionarily a modified leaf.
    Found op http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/glossary_8.html

  2. carpel
    [n] - a simple pistil or one element of a compound pistil
    Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=carpel

  3. Carpel
    A section of the female part of the flower. Carpels are believed to be evolved from an ovule bearing leaf. The carpels are connected by a style to the stigma. A detailed description is difficult, because carpels have evolved into numerous different forms. Some are fused together with a single stigm...
    Found op http://www.botanicalkeys.co.uk/flora/content/glossary.html

  4. Carpel
    [pronounce: car-pull] Female reproductive organ found in flowers,. Is made of stigma, style and ovary.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20442

  5. Carpel
    The female reproductive organ of Flowering Plants.
    Found op http://www.countrysideinfo.co.uk/seed_dispersl/glossary.htm

  6. Carpel
    The unfertilised seed and its associated organs.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20637

  7. Carpel
    A simple pistil or one of the modified leaflets forming a compound pistil.
    Found op http://www.swsbm.com/ManualsMM/MedHerbGloss2.txt

  8. Carpel
    The wall of a simple pistil, or part of a wall of a compound pistil.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20901

  9. Carpel
    Car'pel (kär'pĕl), Car*pel'lum (-pĕl'lŭm) noun [ New Latin carpellum , from Greek karpo`s fruit.] (Botany) A simple pistil or single-celled ovary or seed vessel, or one of the parts of a compo...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/28

  10. carpel
    <plant biology> An organ (generally believed to be a modified foliar unit) at the centre of a flower, bearing one or more ovules and having its margins fused together or with other carpels to enclose the ovule in an ovary, and consisting also of a stigma and usually a style. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
    Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?carpel



  1. carpel
    noun a simple pistil or one element of a compound pistil
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=carpel

  2. Carpel
    • (n.) Alt. of Carpellum
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/carpel/

  3. carpel
    (from the article `seed and fruit`) ...flowers cooperate in producing one fruit (mulberry). Pea and bean plants, exemplifying the simplest situation, show in each flower a single ... ...relationships. There may be a single pistil, as in the lily, or several to many pistils, as in the buttercup. Each...
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/27

  4. carpel
    A female reproductive element of a flower. A carpel consists of a stigma (which receives pollen), a style, and an ovary (containing ovules). A group of carpels make up the gynoecium, the complete female reproductive structure within a flower.
    Found op http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/C/carpel.html

  5. Carpel
    Carpel is a botanical term referring to a simple pistil or a single member of a compound pistil.
    Found op http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/BC.HTM

  6. carpel
    Female reproductive unit in flowering plants (angiosperms). It usually comprises an ovary containing one or more ovules, the stalk or style, and a stigma at its top which receives the pollen. A flower may have one or more carpels, and they may be separate or fused together. Collectively the carpels ...
    Found op http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0006917.html

  7. Carpel
    A simple pistil or a single member of a compound pistil; regarded as a modified leaf.
    Found op http://cal.vet.upenn.edu/projects/poison/glossary.htm

  8. Carpel
    a simple pistil, or a single unit of a compound pistil, the ovule-bearing portion of a flower
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21767

  9. carpel
    a female organ borne at the centre of a flower, consisting of an ovary, a style and a stigma. The gynoecium is the collective term for all the carpels of a single flower.
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_botanical_terms

  10. carpel
    1) A unit of the pistil 2) Pistil
    Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/carpel/1

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