| CARPETBAGGERS | • carpetbaggers n. Plural of carpetbagger. • carpet␣baggers n. Plural of carpet bagger. • CARPETBAGGER n. an opportunistic outsider, especially a political candidate who contests an election in an area while having little connection to it. |
| CARPETBAGGERY | • carpetbaggery n. (Derogatory) The practice of a person coming to a place or organisation with which they have no previous… • CARPETBAGGERY n. the actions of a carpetbagger. |
| CARPETBAGGING | • carpetbagging v. Present participle of carpetbag. • CARPETBAGGING n. the act of engaging in political chicanery. |
| CARPETMONGERS | • carpetmongers n. Plural of carpetmonger. • CARPETMONGER n. (Shakespeare) an effeminate person. |
| COUNTERSCARPS | • counterscarps n. Plural of counterscarp. • COUNTERSCARP n. a narrow earth band on the outer wall of a defensive ditch. |
| ECCREMOCARPUS | • ECCREMOCARPUS n. an evergreen climbing plant, grown for its decorative pinnate foliage and bright orange-red bell flowers. |
| HETEROCARPOUS | • heterocarpous adj. (Botany) Exhibiting heterocarpy. • HETEROCARPOUS adj. bearing fruit of more than kind. |
| HYDNOCARPATES | • HYDNOCARPATE n. any salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid. |
| PARTHENOCARPY | • parthenocarpy n. (Botany) production of (seedless) fruit without fertilization of ovules. • PARTHENOCARPY n. fruit production without fertilization. |
| PLEUROCARPOUS | • pleurocarpous adj. (Botany) Side-fruited; said of those true mosses in which the pedicels or capsules are from lateral archegonia. • PLEUROCARPOUS adj. of mosses, having the archegonia on short lateral branches. |
| PSEUDOCARPOUS | • PSEUDOCARPOUS adj. of or like a pseudocarp. |
| SCHIZOCARPOUS | • schizocarpous adj. Of or relating to schizocarps. • SCHIZOCARPOUS adj. of or like a schizocarp, a compound fruit splitting into several one-seeded ones. |
| STREPTOCARPUS | • streptocarpus n. Any of several plants of the genus Streptocarpus. the Cape primroses. • STREPTOCARPUS n. any flowering plant of the Cape primrose genus Streptocarpus, with foxglove-like flowers. |
| TRICARPELLARY | • TRICARPELLARY adj. of or with three carpels. |