How do you use Carpels in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Carpels meaning
plural of carpel
Using Carpels
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of carpel
- In the example corpus, carpels often appears in combinations such as: carpels are, carpels and, joined carpels.
Context around Carpels
- Average sentence length in these examples: 18.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 2 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Carpels
- In this selection, "carpels" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 18.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, joined, short, free and fused stand out and add context to how "carpels" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include carpels are usually and 10 joined carpels and flowers. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "carpels" sits close to words such as aadi, aayush and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with carpels
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Carpels are usually 2-5. (5 words)
The ovary may be compound, with several carpels. (8 words)
Carpels are usually numerous, distinct, and on an elongated receptacle or torus. (12 words)
It does not have a special "line of weakness" along which it splits to release the seeds when ripe (i.e. it is indehiscent ). citation A berry may develop from an ovary with one or more carpels (the female reproductive structures of a flower). (44 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)
The fruit of blackberries and raspberries comes from a single flower whose pistil is made up of a number of free carpels. (22 words)
Example sentences (11)
Carpels are usually 2-5.
Carpels are usually numerous, distinct, and on an elongated receptacle or torus.
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 does not have a special "line of weakness" along which it splits to release the seeds when ripe (i.e. it is indehiscent ). citation A berry may develop from an ovary with one or more carpels (the female reproductive structures of a flower).
Other distinct features include a gynoecium with five to 10 joined carpels, and flowers with more than three parts per whorl.
Subfamily Ceroxyloideae has small to medium-sized flowers, spirally arranged, with a gynoecium of three joined carpels.
The carpels of Magnolia flowers are especially thick to avoid damage by beetles that land, crawl, and feast on them.
The fruit of blackberries and raspberries comes from a single flower whose pistil is made up of a number of free carpels.
The gynoecium consists of two carpels fused into a single, bicarpellate pistil with an inferior ovary.
The ovary may be compound, with several carpels.
Three carpels are under a constant, trilobed ovary adherent, which is sparsely hairy.
Common combinations with carpels
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: