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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.

Sex :: Sex (n.) The capability in plants of fertilizing or of being fertilized; as, staminate and pistillate flowers are of opposite sexes..

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

Pistilliferous :: Pistilliferous (a.) Pistillate.

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..

Gynodioecious :: Gynodioecious (a.) Dioecious, but having some hermaphrodite or perfect flowers on an individual plant which bears mostly pistillate flowers..

Pistillate :: Pistillate (a.) Having a pistil or pistils; -- usually said of flowers having pistils but no stamens.

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

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