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Definition of pistil

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Pistil (n.) The seed-bearing organ of a flower. It consists of an ovary, containing the ovules or rudimentary seeds, and a stigma, which is commonly raised on an elongated portion called a style. When composed of one carpel a pistil is simple; when composed of several, it is compound. See Illust. of Flower, and Ovary..

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Octagynous :: Octagynous (a.) Having eight pistils or styles; octogynous.

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.

Hypogynous :: Hypogynous (a.) Inserted below the pistil or pistils; -- said of sepals, petals, and stamens; having the sepals, petals, and stamens inserted below the pistil; -- said of a flower or a plant..

Columella :: Columella (n.) An axis to which a carpel of a compound pistil may be attached, as in the case of the geranium; or which is left when a pod opens..

Allogamy :: Allogamy (n.) Fertilization of the pistil of a plant by pollen from another of the same species; cross-fertilization.

Heterogamous :: Heterogamous (a.) The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers which differ in regard to stamens and pistils, as in the aster..

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

Pentagynia :: Pentagynia (n. pl.) A Linnaean order of plants, having five styles or pistils..

Cryptogamia :: Cryptogamia (n.) The series or division of flowerless plants, or those never having true stamens and pistils, but propagated by spores of various kinds..

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..

Octogynous :: Octogynous (a.) Having eight pistils; octagynous.

Perigynium :: Perigynium (n.) Some unusual appendage about the pistil, as the bottle-shaped body in the sedges, and the bristles or scales in some other genera of the Sedge family, or Cyperaceae..

Trigynous :: Trigynous (a.) Having three pistils or styles; of or pertaining to the Trigynia.

Androgynal :: Androgynal (a.) Bearing both staminiferous and pistilliferous flowers in the same cluster.

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

Pistillida :: Pistillida (pl. ) of Pistillidiu.

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..

Homostyled :: Homostyled (a.) Having only one form of pistils; -- said of the flowers of some plants.

Conductive :: Conductive (a.) Having the quality or power of conducting; as, the conductive tissue of a pistil..

Staminate :: Staminate (a.) Having stamens, but lacking pistils..