carpel
Meaning of carpel
noun
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) that have evolved to enclose the ovules. The term pistil is sometimes used to refer to a single carpel or to several carpels fused together.
Information about carpel
- It is a name.
- The plural form of carpel is: carpels.
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Hyphenation of carpel
carpel
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- carpel is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Translation of carpel
Anagrams of carpel
craple, Parcel, parcel, placer
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