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carpel

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Alt. of Carpellum

Source: Webster's dictionary

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A legume fruit is a simple dry fruit that develops from a simple carpel and usually dehisces (opens along a seam) on two sides. Source: Internet

About six weeks ago, I had a bad car accident and broke all the bones in my left forearm and carpel (I guess I now have my own version of carpel tunnel syndrome). Source: Internet

Heteromorphic flowers have short carpels and long stamens, or vice versa, so animal pollinators cannot easily transfer pollen to the pistil (receptive part of the carpel). Source: Internet

It can be used to increase upper body strengths such as in the hands, arms and wrists and carpel tunnel disorders among other things. Source: Internet

However, in botany, a fruit is the ripened ovary or carpel that contains seeds, a nut is a type of fruit and not a seed, and a seed is a ripened ovule. Source: Internet

The "female" cells called megaspores, which will divide to become the egg cell ( megagametogenesis ), are contained in the ovule and enclosed in the carpel (or megasporophyll). Source: Internet

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