Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Carpel

Carpel (kar"pel) , noun

[New Latin carpellum, from Greek karpo`s fruit.]

(Botany) A simple pistil or single-celled ovary or seed vessel, or one of the parts of a compound pistil, ovary, or seed vessel. See Illust of Carpaphore .

Also: Carpellum