carpel

2 definitions found

carpel - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Carpel \Car"pel\ (k[aum]r"p[e^]l), Carpellum \Car*pel"lum\
     (-p[e^]l"l[u^]m), n. [NL. carpellum, fr. Gr. karpo`s fruit.]
     (Bot.)
     A simple pistil or single-celled ovary or seed vessel, or one
     of the parts of a compound pistil, ovary, or seed vessel. See
     Illust of Carpaphore.
     [1913 Webster]

carpel - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  carpel
      n 1: a simple pistil or one element of a compound pistil