carpel

Significado (Inglês)

A constituent part of a flower pistil: the 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.

Conceitos

carpelo

Sinônimos

pistil

Traduções

carpelle

carpelo

carpello

Fruchtblatt

Karpell

carpel

karpel

pistil

carpellum

vruchtblad

καρπόφυλλο

feuille carpellaire

meyva yaprağı

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈkɑː(ɹ)pəl/

Etimologia (Inglês)

1835, borrowed from French carpelle, from New Latin carpellum, a diminutive of Ancient Greek κᾰρπός (kărpós, “fruit”), from Proto-Indo-European *kerp- (“to pluck, harvest”).