carpel

English

Etymology

1835, borrowed from French carpelle, from New Latin carpellum, a diminutive of Ancient Greek κᾰρπός (karpós, “fruit”), from Proto-Indo-European *kerp- (“to pluck, harvest”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑː(ɹ)pəl/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)pəl
• Homophone: carpal

Noun

carpel (plural carpels)

1. (botany) A constituent part of a flower pistil - the female reproductive organs in a flower. A carpel is composed of an ovary, a style, and a stigma, although some flowers have carpels without a distinct style. In origin, carpels are leaves (megasporophylls) that have evolved to enclose the ovules. A pistil may be composed of a single carpel or of several carpels fused together.

Synonyms

• carpophyll

Derived terms

• acarpellous
• carpellary
• carpellate

 

Translations

structural unit of a pistil

• Catalan: carpel m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 心皮 (zh) (xīnpí)

• Czech: pestík (cs) m
• Dutch: vruchtblad n
• Finnish: emilehti
• French: carpelle (fr) m
• Greek: καρπόφυλλο (el) n (karpófyllo)
• Hungarian: termőlevél (hu) sg
• Italian: carpello (it) m
• Japanese: 心皮 (ja) (しんぴ, shinpi)
• Macedonian: оплодно ливче n (oplodno livče)
• Polish: słupek (pl) m
• Portuguese: carpelo (pt) m
• Romanian: carpelă (ro) f
• Russian: плодоли́стик (ru) m (plodolístik)
• Spanish: carpelo (es) m

See also

• gynoecium

References

• "carpel." The American Heritage® Science Dictionary. Houghton Mifflin Company. 23 Feb. 2007. [1].

Anagrams

• Placer, craple, parcel, placer

Old French

Etymology

From carpe +‎ -el.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaɾˈpɛl/

Noun

carpel oblique singular, m (oblique plural carpiaus, nominative singular carpiaus, nominative plural carpel)

1. young carp (fish)

Descendants

• French: carpeau