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carpel (n.)
1835, from Modern Latin
carpellum
(1817 in French), a diminutive form from Greek
karpos
"fruit" (also "returns, profit"), literally "that which is plucked," from PIE root
*kerp-
"to gather, pluck, harvest" (see
harvest
(n.)).
