compound ovary

American  

noun

Botany.

1. an ovary composed of more than one carpel.

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Example Sentences

Nigélla Damascèna, L., the Fennel-flower, which offers a remarkable exception in having the pistils partly united into a compound ovary, so as to form a several-celled capsule, grows nearly spontaneously around gardens.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

The pods or dehiscent fruits belonging to a compound ovary have several technical names: but they all may be regarded as kinds of 370.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

Composed of 2 or more similar parts united, as a compound ovary.

From The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Gleason, Henry Allan

Technically speaking, it is a hard, indehiscent, one-seeded dry fruit resulting from a compound ovary.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948 by Northern Nut Growers Association

Pistils united into a 3–6-celled compound ovary; stigmas sessile; ovules solitary.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa