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Carpophore

A thin stalk that raises the pistil above the stamens in some plants.

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noun
  1. 1

    A thin stalk that raises the pistil above the stamens in some plants.

  2. 2

    The stem of the fruiting body in higher fungi.

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carpophyllnoun(botany) Synonym of carpel.
gonophorenoun(zoology) A medusoid bud on a hydroid.
carpelnoun(botany) 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.
carpophytenoun(botany) A flowerless plant which forms a true fruit as the result of fertilization.
gynophorenoun(botany) The stalk of a pistil; the stalk, present in certain flowers (such as those of the genera Telopea and Brachychiton), which supports the gynoecium.
pedicelnoun(botany) A stalk of an individual flower (or fruit, e.g., once fertilised) or spore-producing body within a cluster.
stylenounSenses relating to a thin, pointed object.
carpospherenoun(botany) A phyllosphere of fruits
filamentnounA fine thread or wire.
stylulusnoun(botany) The elongated apex of a free carpel which functions like the style of a syncarpous ovary, allowing pollen tubes from its stigma to enter the locule of only that carpel.
archegoniophorenoun(botany) The stalk of a prothallium that carries the archegonia
carposporenounA kind of spore formed in the conceptacles of red algae.
carposporophytenounAn algal sporophyte that is part of a sporocarp
carpopodiumnoun(botany) A receptacular elongation of the base of the gynoecium
pistillodenoun(botany) A sterile pistil in a male flower.
hydrophorenounA tank used to provide water pressure.
carposporangiumnoun(biology) A sporangium (that contains carpospores) in red algae, a cluster of which forms the cystocarp
anthophorenoun(botany) The stipe when developed into an internode between calyx and corolla, as in the pink family.
podospermnoun(botany) The stalk of a seed or ovule.
carpoxenianoun(botany) The effect of pollen on the tissue of the carpel

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