Definition of "carpels" []

• Plural form of carpel. (noun)

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• "The macrosporangia (ovules) are borne on similar leaves, known as carpels, and, like the pollen sacs, borne in pairs, but on the upper side of the sporophyll instead of the lower."
• "Again, the increased number of carpels which is sometimes met with in such flowers, as _Magnolia_ or _Delphinium_, where the ovaries are arranged in spiral series, is not strictly referable to the present category."
• "Inferred ancestral features include more than two whorls (or series) of tepals and stamens, stamens with protruding adaxial or lateral pollen sacs, several free, ascidiate carpels closed by secretion, extended stigma, extragynoecial compitum, and one or several ventral pendent ovule (s)."