carpel
noun
a simple pistil, or a single member of a compound pistil.
carpellary
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a word derived from
carpel.
Example Sentences
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Others have been led to see in each placenta, even when it is, to all outward appearance, a portion of the carpellary leaf, a direct prolongation from the axis, adherent to the leaf.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
Here the apex of the carpellary leaf is sometimes drawn out into a long style, terminated by a flattened spatulate stigma.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
In other cases, doubtless, the carpellary whorl is alone repeated, the other whorls of the adventitious flower being completely absent.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
The occurrence of buds in the axils of carpellary scales may, however, simply mean that buds, which are usually undeveloped in the axils of sporophylls, occasionally afford evidence of their existence.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various
Increased number of parts in the calycine, corolline, and carpellary whorls respectively.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
