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Definition of Carpellate
1. Adjective. Bearing or consisting of carpels.
Definition of Carpellate
1. Adjective. (botany) Having carpels ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Carpellate
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carpellate
Literary usage of Carpellate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of Botany by Joseph Young Bergen, Bradley Moore Davis (1906)
"The carpellate cone. The carpellate cones have a complex structure that cannot
here be ... The young carpellate cones are upright when they first appear, ..."
2. Fundamentals of Botany by Charles Stuart Gager (1916)
"carpellate Cones.—One or more young carpellate cones appear near the tip of the
new growth ... Like the staminate cones, the carpellate cones are branches, ..."
3. Studien zur Entwicklungsgeschichte des japanischen Riesensalamanders by Charles Stuart Gager, Daniel Lange (1916)
"H. The Young carpellate Cone: 1. On which internode of the vegetative branch are the
... Note that each carpellate cone is borne at the tip of a stalk. ..."
4. Plant Studies: An Elementary Botany by John Merle Coulter (1900)
"As the staminate cone is sometimes wrongly called a " male cone," so the carpellate
cone is wrongly called a "female cone," the old idea being that the ..."
5. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1921)
"By proper manipulation of the food supply he was able to change staminate plants
to carpellate plants and vice versa. More remarkable still, after turning ..."
6. Handbook of Plant Morphology: Being the Handbook of Plant Dissection by Otis William Caldwell, Joseph Charles Arthur, Charles Reid Barnes, John Merle Coulter (1904)
"In addition to these, young cones of both kinds and also carpellate cones about
a year old should be collected and preserved for sectioning of the sporangia ..."
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