carpel in a sentence

Examples

1. A plant with only functional carpels is called pistillate, or ( inaccurately ) female.
2. The borders of the valves may or may not coincide with the borders of carpels.
3. Fruits are formed of loosely cohering or almost free carpels ( the ripened pistels ).
4. Each carpel will usually have a distinct line of placentation where the ovules are attached.
5. The carpels, filled with fluid-filled vesicles that are actually specialized hair cells.
6. There is one pistil and one carpel.
7. The fruit are small carpels, grey in colour, with a single black seed.
8. Several stamen surround a cluster of carpels.
9. There are numerous stamens surrounding the carpels; they are each about 13 mm long.
10. Such a defect can be rather attractive in a flower as stamens and carpels become petals.