Female Plant Part

This page is the CodyCross answer for the clue below from All Things Water, Group 1293, Puzzle 5 (Cruise Ships).

Question is: Female Plant Part

and the answer is: CARPEL

Word Meaning:

CARPEL — (botany) A constituent part of a flower pistil: the female reproductive organs in a flower. A carpel is composed of an ovary, a style, and a stigma, although some flowers have carpels without a distinct style. In origin, carpels are leaves (megasporophylls) that have evolved to enclose the ovules. A pistil may be composed of a single carpel or of several carpels fused together.

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