Part 1661

<hw>Car"pet*way`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Agric.)</fld> <def>A border of greensward left round the margin of a plowed field.</def>

<i>Ray.</i>

<h1>Carphology</h1> <Xpage=220>

<hw>Car*phol"o*gy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ any small dry body + <ets>-logy</ets>: cf. F. <ets>carphologie</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>See <er>Flaccillation</er>.</def>

<h1>Carping</h1> <Xpage=220>

<hw>Carp"ing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Fault-finding; censorious caviling. See <er>Captious</er>.</def>

-- <wordforms><wf>Carp"ing*ly</wf>, <tt>adv</tt>.</wordforms>

<h1>Carpintero</h1> <Xpage=220>

<hw>Car`pin*te"ro</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Sp., a carpenter, a woodpecker.]</ety> <def>A california woodpecker (<spn>Melanerpes formicivorus)</spn>, noted for its habit of inserting acorns in holes which it drills in trees. The acorns become infested by insect larv\'91, which, when grown, are extracted for food by the bird.</def>

<h1>Carpogenic</h1> <Xpage=220>

<hw>Car`po*gen"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ fruit + <ets>-gen</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Productive of fruit, or causing fruit to be developed.</def>

<h1>Carpolite</h1> <Xpage=220>

<hw>Car"po*lite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ fruit + <ets>-lite</ets>, cf. F. <ets>carpolithe</ets>.]</ety> <def>A general term for a fossil fruit, nut, or seed.</def>

<h1>Carpological</h1> <Xpage=220>

<hw>Car`po*log"i*cal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to carpology.</def>

<h1>Carpologist</h1> <Xpage=220>

<hw>Car*pol"o*gist</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who describes fruits; one versed in carpology.</def>

<h1>Carpology</h1> <Xpage=220>

<hw>Car*pol"o*gy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ fruit + <ets>-logy</ets>.]</ety> <def>That branch of botany which relates to the structure of seeds and fruit.</def>

<h1>Carpophagous</h1> <Xpage=220>

<hw>Car*poph"a*gous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ fruit + <?/ to eat.]</ety> <def>Living on fruits; fruit-consuming.</def>

<h1>Carpophore</h1> <Xpage=220>

<hw>Car"po*phore</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ fruit + <?/ to bear.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A slender prolongation of the receptacle as an axis between the carpels, as in Geranium and many umbelliferous plants.</def>

<h1>Carpophyll</h1> <Xpage=220>

<hw>Car"po*phyll</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ fruit + <?/ leaf.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A leaf converted into a fruit or a constituent portion of a fruit; a carpel. <note>[See <i>Illust</i>. of <er>Gymnospermous</er>.]</note></def>

<h1>Carpophyte</h1> <Xpage=220>

<hw>Car"po*phyte</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ fruit + <?/ plant.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A flowerless plant which forms a true fruit as the result of fertilization, as the red seaweeds, the <spn>Ascomycetes</spn>, etc.</def>

<note>&hand; The division of alge and fungi into four classes called Carpophytes, O\'94phytes, Protophytes, and Zygophytes (or <spn>Carpospore\'91</spn>, <spn>O\'94spore\'91</spn>, <spn>Protophyta</spn>, and <spn>Zygospore\'91</spn>) was proposed by Sachs about 1875.</note>