A slender prolongation of the receptacle as an axis between the carpels, as in Geranium and many umbelliferous plants.

n. (Gr. karpophorus, bearing fruit; karpos, fruit, and pherein, to bear) generally the organ that supports the carpels; specifically, a very much elongated axis to which the carpels are attached.

The complete fruit body of the fungus (i.e. cap, stem, gills, etc). Sporophore and sporocarp are other names also used

a slender stalk that furnishes an axis for a carpel

in ferns, the stalk of a sporocarp; in a fruit, the central axis between the carpels, arising from the receptacle and often persistent, e.g. after mericarps are shed.

Floral axis extension between adjacent carpels, as in the Apiaceae.

name given to the stem, cap and gills (fruiting body as a whole)