carpo-, carp-, -carp, -carpic, -carpium, -carpous, -carpus (fruit)

(Greek: fruit [or similar reproductive result]; to cut, to pluck)

Don't confuse this carpo- unit with other unrelated "carpo- units":

Latin carpo- meaning "pluck, pick out";

Greek carpo- meaning "wrist".

acarpous (adjective) (not comparable)
Without fruit, not bearing fruit; sterile: The fruit tree is strictly acarpous and will not bear any more fruit.
allocarpy (s) (noun), allocarpies (pl)
The production of fruit after cross-fertilization: Mr Jones was pleased that his first try at allocarpy, or the creation of fruit due to cross-fertilisation, was totally successful.
amphicarpic
Producing two kinds of fruit that differ either in form or in time of ripening.
apocarpous (adjective), more apocarpous, most apocarpous
A reference to having distinctly separate seed-bearing organs; such as, the strawberry.
carpel
carpogenic
carpogenous
carpolite
carpolith
carpology
carpophile (s) (noun), carpophiles (pl)
An organism that prefers feeding on fruit: Mushrooms and insects can be considered to be carpophiles that have a great fondness for feeding on fruit or for decaying fruit of any kind.
carpophily (s) (noun) (no pl)
A fondness for fruit: Janet found out that carpophily was the situation of living things, particularly insects, that love munching on, chewing, consuming, and eating all kinds of fruit.
carpophore
chrysocarpous (adjective), more chrysocarpous, most chrysocarpous
Pertaining to plants that produce golden-yellow fruit.
cremocarp
The peculiar fruit of fennel, carrot, parsnip, and the like, consisting of a pair of carpels pendent from a supporting axis.