carpels

Meaning of carpels

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 carpels

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of carpels is: carpel.
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Hyphenation of carpels

carpels

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
  • carpels is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Anagrams of carpels

clasper, craples, parcels, placers, reclasp, scalper

Words that rhyme with carpels

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