[f. Gr. καρπο- fruit + -λογια: see -LOGY.] The part of botany that is concerned with the study of fruits. Hence Carpological a., Carpologically adv., Carpologist.
1806. Edin. Rev., VIII. 66. Those botanists … are … aware of the necessity of the study of carpology. Ibid., 67. A carpological tour in France, England and Holland.
1869. in Eng. Mech., 24 Dec., 370/2. Carpological specimens.
1819. Colebrooke, in Trans. Linn. Soc., XIII. (1822), 46. That eminent carpologist.
