Relating to or connecting the fruit and the carpel, or the mature fruit and the female flower part.
From Greek 'karpos' (fruit) + 'carpel' (female flower part). A technical botanical term combining the terms for both structures.
This adjective describes one of botany's coolest transformations—how the carpel (flower part) literally becomes the fruit, creating a carpocarpal relationship.
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