0 the female reproductive organ of a flower, in which seeds are produced -- plodolist (biol.)
Or perhaps this will be like that national minimum income guarantee—swept under the carpel like so many broken promises of the party opposite.
The stigmas are commissural, meaning that the area that is receptive to pollen extends downward along the fissures where the carpels are joined.
It is a perfect and complete flower, with four stamens and two carpels.
There are ten stamens and a single carpel.
There are five stamens and a pistil formed from three fused carpels.
The fruit is drupe-like, consisting of one carpel.
A carpel is the modified leaf that contains the ovules and has a style and a stigma on top.
The ovary consists of three united carpels with two ovules per carpel.
