Carpels is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 328 anagrams from letters in carpels (acelprs).
1810-20; New Latin carpellum, equivalent to Greek karp(ós) fruit + Latin -ellum diminutive suffix
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.
We must therefore regard the flower of the grass as typically composed of one carpel and three stamens, with no perianth whatever.
carpel, or Carpidium, a simple pistil or a pistil-leaf, 106.
Each component flower-leaf of a compound pistil is likewise a carpel.
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.
carpel, kr′pel, n. a modified leaf forming the whole or part of the pistil of a flower.
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.
Mericarp, one carpel of the fruit of an Umbelliferous plant, 121.
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