Car"pet*way` (?), n. (Agric.) A border of greensward left round the margin of a plowed field. Ray.
Car*phol"o*gy (kńr*f&obreve;l"&osl;*j&ybreve;), n. [Gr. ka`rfos any small dry body + -logy: cf. F. carphologie.] (Med.) See Floccillation.
Carp"ing (kńrp"&ibreve;ng), a. Fault-finding; censorious caviling. See Captious.
-- Carp"ing*ly, adv.
||Car`pin*te"ro (kńr`p&esl;n*t&asl;"r&osl;), n. [Sp., a carpenter, a woodpecker.] A california woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus), noted for its habit of inserting acorns in holes which it drills in trees. The acorns become infested by insect larvŠ, which, when grown, are extracted for food by the bird.
Car`po*gen"ic (kńr`p&osl;*j&ebreve;n"&ibreve;k), a. [Gr. karpo`s fruit + - gen.] (Bot.) Productive of fruit, or causing fruit to be developed.
Car"po*lite (kńr"p&osl;*līt), n. [Gr. karpo`s fruit + - lite, cf. F. carpolithe.] A general term for a fossil fruit, nut, or seed.
Car`po*log"i*cal (?), a. Of or pertaining to carpology.
Car*pol"o*gist (?), n. One who describes fruits; one versed in carpology.
Car*pol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. karpo`s fruit + -logy.] That branch of botany which relates to the structure of seeds and fruit.
Car*poph"a*gous (?), a. [Gr. karpo`s fruit + &?; to eat.] Living on fruits; fruit-consuming.
Car"po*phore (?), n. [Gr. karpo`s fruit + &?; to bear.] (Bot.) A slender prolongation of the receptacle as an axis between the carpels, as in Geranium and many umbelliferous plants.
Car"po*phyll (?), n. [Gr. karpo`s fruit + &?; leaf.] (Bot.) A leaf converted into a fruit or a constituent portion of a fruit; a carpel. [See Illust. of Gymnospermous.]
Car"po*phyte (kńr"p&osl;*līt), n. [Gr. karpo`s fruit + fyto`n plant.] (Bot.) A flowerless plant which forms a true fruit as the result of fertilization, as the red seaweeds, the Ascomycetes, etc.
&fist; The division of algŠ and fungi into four classes called Carpophytes, O÷phytes, Protophytes, and Zygophytes (or CarposporeŠ, O÷sporeŠ, Protophyta, and ZygosporeŠ) was proposed by Sachs about 1875.
Car"po*spore (?), n. [Gr. karpo`s + -spore.] (Bot.) A kind of spore formed in the conceptacles of red algŠ. -- Car`po*spor"ic (&?;), a.
||Car"pus (kńr"pŭs), n.; pl. Carpi (- pī). [NL., fr. Gr. karpo`s wrist.] (Anat.) The wrist; the bones or cartilages between the forearm, or antibrachium, and the hand or forefoot; in man, consisting of eight short bones disposed in two rows.
Car"rack (?), n. See Carack.
{ Car"ra*geen` (?), Car"ri*geen` (?) }, n. A small, purplish, branching, cartilaginous seaweed (Chondrus crispus), which, when bleached, is the Irish moss of commerce. [Also written carragheen, carageen.]
||Car*ran"cha (?), n. [Native name.] (Zo÷l.) The Brazilian kite (Polyborus Brasiliensis); -- so called in imitation of its notes.
Car"ra*way (?), n. See Caraway.
Car"rel (?), n. See Quarrel, an arrow.
Car"rel, n. (Arch.) Same as 4th Carol.
Car"ri*a*ble (?), a. Capable of being carried.
Car"riage (?), n. [OF. cariage luggage, carriage, chariage carriage, cart, baggage, F. charriage, cartage, wagoning, fr. OF. carier, charier, F. charrier, to cart. See Carry.] 1. That which is carried; burden; baggage. [Obs.]
David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage.
1. Sam. xvii. 22.
And after those days we took up our carriages and went up to Jerusalem.
Acts. xxi. 15.