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Monoclinous :: Monoclinous (a.) Hermaphrodite, or having both stamens and pistils in every flower..

Tri/cious :: Tri/cious (a.) Having three sorts of flowers on the same or on different plants, some of the flowers being staminate, others pistillate, and others both staminate and pistillate; belonging to the order Tri/cia..

Female :: Female (n.) A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.

Phyllous :: Phyllous (a.) Homologous with a leaf; as, the sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils are phyllous organs..

Gynandria :: Gynandria (n. pl.) A class of plants in the Linnaean system, whose stamens grow out of, or are united with, the pistil..

Carpellum :: Carpellum (n.) A simple pistil or single-celled ovary or seed vessel, or one of the parts of a compound pistil, ovary, or seed vessel. See Illust of Carpaphore..

Floss :: Floss (n.) The slender styles of the pistillate flowers of maize; also called silk.

Pistillody :: Pistillody (n.) The metamorphosis of other organs into pistils.

Pistilliferous :: Pistilliferous (a.) Pistillate.

Pistillation :: Pistillation (n.) The act of pounding or breaking in a mortar; pestillation.

Column :: Column (n.) The body formed by the union of the stamens in the Mallow family, or of the stamens and pistil in the orchids..

Polycarpous :: Polycarpous (a.) Having several pistils in one flower.

Pistillidium :: Pistillidium (n.) Same as Archegonium.

Cenanthy :: Cenanthy (n.) The absence or suppression of the essential organs (stamens and pistil) in a flower.

Octandria :: Octandria (n.pl.) A Linnaean class of plants, in which the flowers have eight stamens not united to one another or to the pistil..

Placenta :: Placenta (n.) The part of a pistil or fruit to which the ovules or seeds are attached.

Female :: Female (a.) Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization..

Trigynia :: Trigynia (n. pl.) A Linnaean order of plants having three pistils or styles.

Proterogynous :: Proterogynous (a.) Having the pistil come to maturity before the stamens; protogynous; -- opposed to proterandrous.

Pistillaceous :: Pistillaceous (a.) Growing on, or having nature of, the pistil; of or pertaining to a pistil..

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