carpellate

9.9

A flower that has the female parts that make seeds

adjective
/kɑrˈpɛlɪt/

Specialized

: carpelar

Some species produce only carpellate flowers, while others have both male and female types.

Examples

The carpellate flowers develop into fruit after pollination.
Botanists examined the carpellate structures under a microscope.
The carpellate flowers attract many pollinators.
Some plants are carpellate and produce seeds.
Many flowering plants are carpellate, meaning they bear structures that develop into fruits.
The plant's carpellate parts contribute significantly to its reproductive process.
In biology class, we learned that a carpellate flower contains the female reproductive organs.

Synonyms

pistillate

vscarpellate

Specialized

1 9.8

A flower that has only female parts and no male parts

is simply bearing carpels and may not exclude presence of stamens

carpellary

vscarpellate

Specialized

9.9

Relating to the female parts of a flower that hold seeds and form the fruit

is about bearing or being made of carpels rather than just relating to them

Antonyms

acarpelous

Specialized

9.9

Flowers that have no female parts and do not make fruit

Surface Forms

carpellate positive

Morphology

carpellate = carpel (transparent) = carpel + ate

Formed by regular suffixation of '-ate' to 'carpel' to mean 'having or bearing carpels', so the derived meaning is directly predictable from the base.

Etymology

The word carpellate comes from the root carpel-, from the Greek karpos meaning 'fruit'. A carpel is the part of a flower that holds seeds and later becomes fruit, so carpellate means 'having carpels', that is, having the female parts that make fruit.