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  • noun Plural form of carpel.

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  • The macrosporangia (ovules) are borne on similar leaves, known as carpels, and, like the pollen sacs, borne in pairs, but on the upper side of the sporophyll instead of the lower.

    Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

  • Again, the increased number of carpels which is sometimes met with in such flowers, as _Magnolia_ or _Delphinium_, where the ovaries are arranged in spiral series, is not strictly referable to the present category.

    Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

  • Inferred ancestral features include more than two whorls (or series) of tepals and stamens, stamens with protruding adaxial or lateral pollen sacs, several free, ascidiate carpels closed by secretion, extended stigma, extragynoecial compitum, and one or several ventral pendent ovule (s).

    A Disclaimer for Behe? 2009

  • Plants adapted to outcross or cross-pollinise have taller stamens than carpels to better spread pollen to other flowers.

    Pollination Wikipedia 2009

  • It had no sexual organs, no stamens and no carpels, only petals, so could multiply by vegetative reproduction alone.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • It had no sexual organs, no stamens and no carpels, only petals, so could multiply by vegetative reproduction alone.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • The flower has three stigmas, which are the distal ends of the plant's carpels.

    How to make a Mojito and New Year's Eve in Goa 2007

  • Abortive stamens, rudimentary floral envelopes and undeveloped carpels, are of the most frequent occurrence.

    On the law which has regulated the introduction of new species 2004

  • From the base to the apex five very faint lines may be traced, over which the spines arch a little; these are the sutures of the carpels, and show where the fruit may be divided with a heavy knife and a strong hand.

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

  • MALVA OVATA (Cav.), or scarcely differing from that species, except in the rather soft and short hairs to the calyx (not long and rigid): the two ends of the curved carpels are equal or blunt; but in M. OVATA the upper one is longer and attenuated into a short beak.

    Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

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