As nouns the difference between carpel and carvel

is that 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 while carvel is (nautical) a small lateen-rigged mediterranean vessel with two masts, used to carry cargo.