Carper vs Carpel - What's the difference?
carper | carpel |
a person who habitually , who talks too much and regularly finds fault
* 1605–1608': By putting on the cunning of a '''carper — William Shakespeare, ''Timon of Athens , 1605–1608
* 1678': Come, let my '''carper to his life now look, / And find there darker lines than in my book — John Bunyan, ''The Pilgrim's Progress , 1678
* 1909–1914':He censures everything, this zealous '''carper . — Curtis Hidden Page's translation of ''Tartuffe or the Hypocrite by Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere, 1909–1914
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.
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