Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Composed of one carpel. Compare
polycarpellary .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Consisting of a single carpel, as the fruit of the pea, cherry, and almond.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Consisting of a single
carpel .
Etymologies
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mono- + carpellary
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Examples
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Mohl remarks that the change of pistils into stamens is more common in monocarpellary pistils than it is in those which are made up of several carpels.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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