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compound ovary

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noun

Botany.
  1. an ovary composed of more than one carpel.


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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

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

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

Cells of the compound ovary becoming twice as many as the styles, each 1-ovuled.

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

Section of same; a, style; e, compound ovary; f, filament; g, anther.

From The First Book of Farming by Goodrich, Charles Landon