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What is the noun for carpellum?

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carpel
  1. (botany) 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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    1. “The carpel of the rose developed into a vibrant red fruit.”
      “The stigma consists of a long band of receptive tissue along the ventral side of the carpel, covered by long unicellular papillae.”
      “The fruit is a schizocarp, breaking at maturity into three single-seeded units, each about 2 mm long, consisting of a seed within a carpel.”
carpophyll
  1. (botany) A leaf converted into a fruit or a constituent portion of a fruit; a carpel.
carpellum
  1. (botany) A carpel.
carpophylls
  1. plural of carpophyll
carpels
  1. plural of carpel
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    1. “The cocoa flower has five free sepals, five free petals, five staminodes, five stamens and an ovary of five united carpels.”
      “Unisexual flowers with three white petals produce numerous stamens or carpels and both present floral nectar.”
      “Five united stamens are adnate to the top of the pistil, which is made up of five connate carpels.”
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