adjective
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having pistils but no anthers
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having or producing pistils
Etymology
Origin of pistillate
Example Sentences
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They are the stigmas and styles of the pistillate flowers, borne in the form of a spike called the ear on a branch about midway down the side of the stalk or stem.
From Time Magazine Archive
Characters of Amarantus, except that the flowers are completely diœcious and the pistillate ones without calyx.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Heads discoid, few–many-flowered; flowers all tubular, the marginal ones pistillate, or sometimes all similar and perfect.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Heads several–many-flowered; the rays pistillate, or sometimes neutral and sterile, few, or sometimes none.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Calyx mostly compressed; the staminate usually 3-parted, the pistillate 2-toothed.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
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