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Definition of Carpels
1. carpel [n] - See also: carpel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carpels
Literary usage of Carpels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"Fruit a several-celled capsule, or the carpels separating at maturity. ...
Petals not emarginate at the apex; carpels beaked, with an internal process above ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Fruit not aggregate, the carpels separate, at least when mature. ... carpels 2
or more, united into a compound ovary; stamens hypogynous; sepals mostly ..."
3. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1876)
"Shrubs : carpels mostly solitary : style not elongated in fruit : stigma decurrent
... Trees or shrubs : carpels solitary or numerous : styles elongated and ..."
4. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1897)
"carpels erect, mostly 2-valved and 2-beaked at the apex, separating at maturity
from each other, and from the central axis. ..."
5. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1853)
"By B. CLARKE, FLS &c. [Continued from p. 90.] PART II. On the Position of carpels.
As the progress of discovery shows that ..."
6. Flora of Miami: Being Descriptions of the Seed-plants Growing Naturally on by John Kunkel Small (1913)
"Mature carpels with 1 tooth each : peduncles, at least those arising from the stem,
... Mature carpels with 2 teeth each : peduncles shorter than the Upper ..."
7. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium by United States National Herbarium, United States National Museum (1891)
"carpels 5 to 15, erect, with conniving or erect tips or points. 7. Anoda.
carpels numerous, united into a depressed star-shaped pod. ++ ++ carpels 2 or ..."
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