How do you use Carpel in a sentence? See 7 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like pistil, plus the exact meaning.
Carpel meaning
A constituent part of a flower pistil: the 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. A pistil may be composed of a single carpel or of several carpels fused together.
Synonyms of Carpel
Using Carpel
- The main meaning on this page is: A constituent part of a flower pistil: the 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. A pistil may be composed of a single carpel or of several carpels fused together.
- Useful related words include: pistil.
- In the example corpus, carpel often appears in combinations such as: carpel tunnel, the carpel.
Context around Carpel
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 4 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Carpel
- In this selection, "carpel" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, food, simple, central, tunnel and region stand out and add context to how "carpel" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a central carpel region and a simple carpel and usually. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "carpel" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with carpel
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A work injury range in severity from carpel tunnel and a bulging disc to paralysis and loss of a limb. (20 words)
We eagerly anticipate the arrival of the plant food, carpel tunnel brace, talking picture frame, night light, or exercise video we ordered. (22 words)
A legume fruit is a simple dry fruit that develops from a simple carpel and usually dehisces (opens along a seam) on two sides. (24 words)
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. (32 words)
These organs are arranged in a series of whorls: four sepals on the outer whorl, followed by four petals inside this, six stamens, and a central carpel region. (28 words)
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). (26 words)
Example sentences (7)
We eagerly anticipate the arrival of the plant food, carpel tunnel brace, talking picture frame, night light, or exercise video we ordered.
A work injury range in severity from carpel tunnel and a bulging disc to paralysis and loss of a limb.
A legume fruit is a simple dry fruit that develops from a simple carpel and usually dehisces (opens along a seam) on two sides.
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).
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).
These organs are arranged in a series of whorls: four sepals on the outer whorl, followed by four petals inside this, six stamens, and a central carpel region.
Common combinations with carpel
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: