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noun a simple pistil or one element of a compound pistil
origin1835, borrowed from French carpelle, from New Latin carpellum, a diminutive of Ancient Greek κᾰρπός (kărpós, “fruit”), from Proto-Indo-European *kerp- (“to pluck, harvest”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0