carnivorous 



Carragheen 



no'sus (Lat. ) fleshy, pulpy ; car- 

 niv'orous (voro, I devour) flesh- 

 eating ; applied to those plants 

 which digest insects ; Caro (Lat. 

 flesh), (1) the fleshy parts of fruits ; 

 (2) the tissue of some Fungi. 



Caro'tin, the red colouring matter of 

 chromoplasts ; name from Daucus 

 Carota, Linn. 



Car'oubin, a carbohydrate first ob- 

 served in the Carob ; Caroub'in- 

 ase, a hydrotytic enzyme formed 

 during germination in seeds of 

 Ceratonia Siliqua, Linn. ; French, 

 Caroube. 



Carpade'lium J Carpade'lus J (Kapiros, 

 fruit, ddr]\os, not manifest) = CKE- 

 MOCAKP. 



Carp'el, Carpell'mn (/capiros, fruit), a 

 simple pistil, or element of a com- 

 pound pistil, answering to a single 

 leaf ; a female sporophyll ; carpel- 

 1'ary, carpefla'ris, carp'icus, relat- 

 ing to a carpel ; Carp'id, Carpid'- 

 ium,= diminutive of CARPEL; Car- 

 p'ium, (1) the oogonium modified 

 by fertilization, which remains as 

 an envelope around the embryo ; 

 (2) J = CARPEL ; Carpoasci (dcr^ds, a 

 wine-skin), the more complex As- 

 comycetous Fungi , all, except the Ex- 

 oascaceae (Kerner) ; Carpoclo'nium 

 (K\WV'IOV, a young shoot), "a free 

 case or receptacle of spores found 

 in certain Algals" (Lindley) ; Car- 

 poderm'is (Sep/j-a, skin), Bischoff's 

 emendation of PERICARP ; Carpo'des, 

 Carpo'dium, pi. Carpo'dia, abortive 

 carpels, as in Typha ; Carp'ogam 

 (71x^05, marriage), the female organ 

 in a procarp ; producing a cysto- 

 carp ; Carpog'amy, the process 

 itself ; carpogen'ic, carpog'enous 

 (ytvos, race), producing fruit ; in 

 Florideae, applied to special cells 

 of the carpogonium ; Carp'ogone, 

 Carpogon'ium (70^77, offspring), (1) 

 part of a procarp of carpogenous 

 cells resulting in a sporocarp after 

 fertilization ; (2) in Ascomycetes = 

 ARCHICARP ; Carp'olite, Carp'olith 

 (Xi'0os, stone), a fossilized fruit ; or 

 casts, found in the coal measures, 



probably of Gymnospermous origin; 

 Carpol'ogist, Carpol'ogus (\6yos, 

 discourse), a specialist in fruits ; 

 Carpol'ogy, classification of fruits ; 

 Carpo'ma J "a collection of sper- 

 mangia " (Lindley), i.e. a compound 

 sporocarp ; Carpoma'nia (/j.avLa, 

 frenzy), a disease of grittiness in 

 fruit ; Carpoma'ny, pistillody, or 

 substitution of pistils for stamens ; 

 Carpomorph'a J (,uop077, shape), apo- 

 thecia of Lichens, resembling true 

 fruits. 



Car'pon (/captor, fruit), in Greek com- 

 pounds = fruit ; Carp'ophore, Car- 

 pophor'ium (<poptu, 1 carry) ; (1) the 

 stalk of a sporocarp ; (2) that part 

 of the receptacle which is prolonged 

 between the carpels as a central 

 axis, as in Ceramium ; (3) used by 

 Fayod as inclusive of stipe, pileus 

 and lamellae, of fungi ; Carp'ophyll, 

 Carpophyll'um (<pti\\ov, leaf), syno- 

 nym of CARPEL ; Carp'ophytes 

 (<pvTov, a plant), Phanerogams ; 

 Carpopo'dium J (podium, an eleva- 

 tion), fruit - stalk ; Carp'osperm 

 (tnrep/j.a, seed), the impregnated 

 oosphere of Algae ; Carposporan'gia 

 (ffTropa, a seed, dyyeioi', a vessel), dif- 

 ferentiated sporangia in the cysto- 

 carp of Rhodophyceae ; Carp'o- 

 spore (<nropa, a seed) ; (1) spore ; 

 (2) a spherical uninuclear spore 

 formed in a sporocarp, arising 

 from the swollen tips of branched 

 filaments resulting from the fer- 

 tilization of the carpogonium ; Car- 

 pospo'reae, one of Cohn's, also 

 Sachs's main divisions of Thallo- 

 phytes, of plants which produce 

 spore-fruit as the result of fertiliza- 

 tion ; carpospor'ic, resembling a 

 carpospore ; Carp'ostome, Carposto'- 

 mium (<TT6/j.a, the mouth), the 

 opening in the cystocarp of some 

 Algae ; Carpopto'sis(7TTw<m,falling), 

 abnormal falling of the fruit ; car- 

 pot'ropic (jpoirri, a turn), used of 

 movements for protection of the 

 fruit, or its dissemination. 



Car'ragheen Moss, chiefly of Chondrus 

 crispus, Ag. 



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