polycarpellary, a. Bot.
(ˌpɒlɪˈkɑːpɛlərɪ)
[f. poly- + carpel, as carpellary.]
Having or consisting of several carpels.
| 1860 Oliver Less. Bot. i. iv. (1872) 31 Bramble...Pistil superior, apocarpous, polycarpellary. 1875 Bennett & Dyer Sachs' Bot. 492 A polycarpellary ovary is always the result of the union of all the carpels of a flower, the number being usually two, three, four, or five, arranged in one whorl, and the floral axis terminating in the midst of them. |