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 Daucm 

 Carota, Linn. 



Car'ouoin, a carbohydrate first ob- 

 served in the Carob ; Caroub'in- 

 ase, a hydrolytic enzyme formed 

 during germination in seeds of 

 Ceratonia Siliqua, Linn. ; French, 

 Caroube. 



Carpade'lium Carpade'lus J (/ta/>7ros, 

 fruit, aSijXos, not manifest) = CRE- 

 MOCARP. 



Carp'el, Carpell'um (napiros, fruit), a 

 simple pistil, or element of a com- 

 pound pistil, answering to a single 

 leaf ; a female sporophyll ; carpel- 

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

 ing to a carpel ; Carpld, Carpid'- 

 ium,= diminutive of CARPEL; Car- 

 plum, (1) the oogonium modified 

 by fertilization, which remains as 

 an envelope around the embryo ; 

 (2) = CARPEL; Carpoasci (dovcoj, a 

 wine-skin), the more complex As- 

 corny cetous Fungi ,all, except the Ex- 

 oascaceae (Kerner) ; Carpoclo'nium 

 (K\<avlov, a young shoot), "a free 

 case or receptacle of spores found 

 in certain Algals" (Lindley) ; Car- 

 poderm'is (5fy/*a, skin), Bischoff's 

 emendation of PERICARP ; Carpo'des, 

 Carpo'dium, pi. Carpo'dia, abortive 

 carpels, as in Typha ; Carp'ogam 

 (7Gi/Aos, 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 

 (\idos, 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 (pavia, 

 frenzy), a disease of grittiness in 

 fruit; Carpoma'ny, pistillody, or 

 substitution of pistils for stamens ; 

 Carpomorph'a J (^o/)0^, shape), apo- 

 thecia of Lichens, resembling true 

 fruits. 



Car'pon (xapTros, fruit), in Greek com- 

 pounds = fruit ; Carpophore, Car- 

 pophor'ium (0opcw, I 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 ((frtXXov, leaf), syno- 

 nym of CARPEL ; Carp'ophytes 

 (<f>vr6v, a plant), Phanerogams ; 

 Carpopod'ium (podium, an eleva- 

 tion), fruit - stalk ; Carp'ospenn 

 (tnrepfjLa, seed), the impregnated 

 oosphere of Algae ; Carposporan'gia 

 ((T7ro/>A, a seed, ayyeiov, a vessel), dif- 

 ferentiated sporangia in the cysto- 

 carp of Rhodophyceae ; Carp'o- 

 spore (ffiropa, 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 (crrbpa., the mouth), the 

 opening in the cystocarp of some 

 Algae ; Carpopto / sis(7rrc3(ris,falling), 

 abnormal falling of the fruit ; car- 

 pot'ropic (rpoiTT], a turn), used of 

 movements for protection of the 

 fruit, or its dissemination. 



Car'ragheen Moss, chiefly of Chondrtia 

 crispm, Ag. 



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