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

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

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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.

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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.

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Dissepiments, the partitions of a compound ovary or a fruit, 108.

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