Определение carpel в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь
One of 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. The term pistil is sometimes used to refer to a single carpel or to several carpels fused together
In seed plants, carpels form the simple or compound gynoecium in that they represent either a simple pistil or one element of a compound pistil The carpel is usually made up of three parts: the ovary, the style, and the stigma [16]
A simple pistil or single-celled ovary or seed vessel, or one of the parts of a compound pistil, ovary, or seed vessel
Carpels are located at the center of the flower A carpel may form a simple pistil (the female reproductive organs of the flower), but a pistil may be composed of two or more fused carpels The carpel is a modified leaf-like structure, enclosing one or more ovules To learn how many carpels are in a pistil, count the number of divisions in the stigma; if the stigma is not divided, there is only one carpel
One of the leaflike, seed-bearing structures that constitute the innermost whorl of a flower. One or more carpels make up the pistil. Fertilization of an egg within a carpel by a pollen grain from another flower results in seed development within the carpel