carpel

English

Etymology

French carpelle

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkɑː(ɹ)pəl/
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)pəl
Homophone: carpal

Noun

carpel (plural carpels)

(botany) One of the individual 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. The term pistil is sometimes used to refer to a single carpel or to several carpels fused together.

Translations

structural unit of a pistil

Chinese:
Mandarin: 心皮 (zh) (xīnpí)
Czech: pestík (cs) m
Finnish: emilehti
French: carpelle (fr) m
Italian: carpello (it) m

Japanese: 心皮 (しんぴ, shinpi)
Polish: słupek (pl) m
Portuguese: carpelo m
Romanian: carpelă (ro) f
Russian: плодоли́стик (ru) m (plodolístik)
Spanish: carpelo (es) m

References

"carpel." The American Heritage® Science Dictionary. Houghton Mifflin Company. 23 Feb. 2007. .

Anagrams

craple, parcel, placer

Old French

Etymology

From carpe +‎ -el.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /karˈpɛl/

Noun

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

young carp (fish)

Descendants

French: carpeau

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