Intercarpellary
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Intercarpellary is an adjective meaning (botany) Between carpels.
Meaning
(botany) Between carpels.
Example Sentences
We also suggest that the formation of pollen octads may be selectively advantageous when pollinator visits are infrequent, although this would only be applicable if multiple ovules could be fertilized by each octad; since the flowers are apocarpous, this would require an extragynoecial compitum to enable intercarpellary growth of pollen tubes.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include carpellary, carpellate, carpelloid, carpeloid, carposporangial, subapocarpous.
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