CARPEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carpel mean? 

• CARPEL (noun)
  The noun CARPEL has 1 sense:

1. a simple pistil or one element of a compound pistil

  Familiarity information: CARPEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARPEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A simple pistil or one element of a compound pistil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("carpel" is a kind of...):

pistil (the female ovule-bearing part of a flower composed of ovary and style and stigma)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "carpel"):

mericarp (a carpel with one seed; one of a pair split apart at maturity)

Holonyms ("carpel" is a part of...):

bloom; blossom; flower (reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts)

Derivation:

carpellary (belonging to or forming or containing carpels)

 Context examples 

A simple fleshy fruit that includes a fleshy ovary wall and one or more carpels and seeds.

(Berry, Food and Drug Administration)