a. Bot. [f. CARPEL; see -ARY, and cf. F. carpellaire.] Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a carpel.
1830. Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., 216. The two carpellary leaves of which the fruit is formed. Ibid. (1835), Introd. Bot. (1848), I. 372. The carpellary theory of structure.
