carpel
/kahr-puhl/US // ˈkɑr pəl //UK // (ˈkɑːpəl) //
心皮,心皮层,心皮细胞,心室
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
Botany.
- : a simple pistil, or a single member of a compound pistil.
Examples
A pod-like fruit composed of a solitary carpel and usually splitting open by both sutures (Leguminosae).
The follicle is a dry unilocular many-seeded fruit, formed from one carpel and dehiscing by the ventral suture.
From the back of each carpel grows a wing, converting the fruit into two 1-seeded, at length separable samaras or keys.
Also, instead of a perigynous disk, there are usually little scales on the receptacle, one behind each carpel.
A dry dehiscent fruit composed of more than one carpel; the spore-case of Hepatic, etc.
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