Definitions for carpel

carpel car·pel

Spelling: [kahr-puh l]
IPA: /ˈkɑr pəl/

Carpel is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 146 anagrams from letters in carpel (acelpr).

Definitions for carpel

noun

  1. a simple pistil, or a single member of a compound pistil.

Origin of carpel

1810-20; New Latin carpellum, equivalent to Greek karp(ós) fruit + Latin -ellum diminutive suffix

Examples for carpel

We must therefore regard the flower of the grass as typically composed of one carpel and three stamens, with no perianth whatever.

If this is so the flower of the grass is perfectly naked,97 and consists in the typical case of three stamens and one carpel.

carpel, kr′pel, n. a modified leaf forming the whole or part of the pistil of a flower.

carpel, or Carpidium, a simple pistil or a pistil-leaf, 106.

Each13 ovary contains only one ovule, and when the seed ripens, the carpel does not open to discharge it, but drops with the seed.

Hemicarp, half-fruit, one carpel of an Umbelliferous plant, 121.

Mericarp, one carpel of the fruit of an Umbelliferous plant, 121.

Each component flower-leaf of a compound pistil is likewise a carpel.

It is also applied to the stalk or petiole of a carpel, in the rare cases when there is any, as in Goldthread.

Roeper has also mentioned a balsam with a supernumerary stamen occupying exactly the position of a carpel.

Word Value for carpel
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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