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Carped vs Carpel - What's the difference?

carped | carpel |

As a verb carped

is (carp).

As a noun carpel is

one of the individual 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 the term pistil is sometimes used to refer to a single carpel or to several carpels fused together.

carped

English

Verb

(head)
  • (carp)

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    carp

    English

    (wikipedia carp)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) carpe, from .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae'', especially the common carp, ''Cyprinus carpio .
    • See also
    * koi

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To complain about a fault; to harp on.
  • (obsolete) To say; to tell.
  • (obsolete) To find fault with; to censure.
    • (Dryden)
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    carpel

    English

    (wikipedia carpel)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of the individual 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. The term pistil is sometimes used to refer to a single carpel or to several carpels fused together.

    • References

    * "carpel." The American Heritage® Science Dictionary. Houghton Mifflin Company. 23 Feb. 2007. .

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