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/
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)pəl
Homophone: carpal

Noun

carpel (plural carpels)

(botany) A constituent part of a flower pistil - 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. A pistil may be composed of a single carpel or of several carpels fused together.

Synonyms

carpophyll

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)
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

Placer, 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