monocarpellary, a. Bot.
(ˌmɒnəʊˈkɑːpələrɪ)
[mono-.]
Having or consisting of a single carpel.
| 1863 Bentham Flora Austral. I. Introd. 17 Where a more precise nomenclature is adopted, the flower is monocarpellary when the pistil consists of a single simple carpel. 1873 Oliver Less. Bot. 30 Garden pea..pistil superior, apocarpous, monocarpellary. 1875 Bennett & Dyer Sachs' Bot. 492 A whorl of monocarpellary ovaries. |