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carpellate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
carpel-late
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having functional carpels (and lacking stamens).

Etymology

Etymology tree English carpel Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English carpellate From carpel + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Derived Forms

bicarpellate monocarpellate pentacarpellate pluricarpellate tetracarpellate tricarpellate unicarpellate

Synonyms

pistillate

Questions

What does carpellate mean?
Having functional carpels (and lacking stamens).
Where does carpellate come from?
Etymology tree English carpel Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English carpellate From carpel + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

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