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Type Words
Type of pistil
Has types mericarp
Derivation carpellary

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A carpel is the ovule and seed producing reproductive organ in flowering plants.
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The male pollen is produced in the stamens and the carpel bears the female ovule.
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By Aug. 1, 2007, the employee began to suspect she had carpel tunnel syndrome.
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A pistil may consist of a single carpel or a number of carpels fused together.
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The receptive part of the carpel is called a stigma in the flowers of angiosperms.
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Plants adapted to self-fertilize often have similar stamen and carpel lengths.
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Who knew you could get carpel tunnel syndrome for using a vacuum hose?
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Because she was so young, Wilsey assumed she had carpel tunnel syndrome.
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Baker had planned to delay Arroyo's start because of the pitcher's carpel tunnel syndrome.
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More examples
  • A simple pistil or one element of a compound pistil
  • The gynoecium (from Ancient Greek , gyne, meaning woman, and , oikos, meaning house) is a term with several meanings in botanical usage. ...
  • 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. ...
  • (carpels) The female reproductive structures of a flower; consisting of the ovary, style, and stigma. PICTURE
  • (Carpels) Female sex organs. They contain the Ovules which become seeds when mature.
  • The megasporophyll of the Anthophyta; one or more carpels form a pistil.
  • A structure that encloses an egg in angiosperms, composed of ovary, style, and stigma.
  • The structure within the flower which bears the ovules. Carpels take many forms and may be separated from one another as in the family Annonaceae or may be fused to form an ovary which may or may not be divided into locules, e.g. Myrtaceae, Pittosporaceae.
  • Leaf-like megasporophyll bearing one or more ovules on the inner surface. In dehiscent dry fruits that split open, carpels are represented by the seed-bearing sections. Carpels are difficult to distinguish in dry, indehiscent fruits (e.g. nuts) and fleshy fruits (e.g. berries). ...