carpel
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Alt. of Carpellum
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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.
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).
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).
It can be used to increase upper body strengths such as in the hands, arms and wrists and carpel tunnel disorders among other things.
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.
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).