Carpellate - Law Dictionary Search Results

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carpellate

bearing or consisting of carpels Opposite of acarpelous...

a dry fruit or pod which is made up of several parts or carpels and opens to discharge the seeds as the capsule of the poppy the flax the lily etc...

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...

Belonging to forming or containing carpels...

A slender prolongation of the receptacle as an axis between the carpels as in Geranium and many umbelliferous plants...

A leaf converted into a fruit or a constituent portion of a fruit a carpel See Illust of Gymnospermous...

One of the separable carpels of a dry fruit...

Hollow seeded having the ventral face of the seedlike carpels incurved at the ends as in coriander seed...

An axis to which a carpel of a compound pistil may be attached as in the case of the geranium or which is left when a pod opens...

The peculiar fruit of fennel carrot parsnip and the like consisting of a pair of carpels pendent from a supporting axis...

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