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Carpel

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



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... has been independently reached. The same simple conception is said to unlock innumerable problems of vegetable morphology, large and small alike. It explains the inevitable development of gymnosperm into angiosperm by the checked vegetative growth of the ovule-bearing leaf or carpel; while such minor adaptations as the splitting fruit of the geranium or the cupped stigma of the pansy, can be no longer looked upon as achievements of natural selection, but must be regarded as naturally traceable to the vegetative checking of their respective types of ...
— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace



Words linked to "Carpel" :   blossom, mericarp, bloom, carpellary, pistil, flower



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