pistil
the ovule-bearing or seed-bearing female organ of a flower, consisting when complete of ovary, style, and stigma.
such organs collectively, where there are more than one in a flower.
a gynoecium.
Origin of pistil
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How to use pistil in a sentence
At their side walked a body-guard of eight hoppers, armed with pistils, and having side-arms of sword-grass.
Japanese Fairy World | William Elliot GriffisWhat proportion do we discover between the stalks and the leaves of flowers, or between the leaves and the pistils?
There's the first flower I came to; now let's see you find your pistils and stamens and thingamies.
Donald and Dorothy | Mary Mapes DodgePhanerogamous, fan-e-rog′a-mus, adj. having true flowers containing stamens and pistils—opp.
Mister Blanc, a sinister lookin man with his Belt full of knives & hoss pistils, axes one of the Browns to take a drink.
The Complete Works of Artemus Ward | Charles Farrar Browne (AKA Artemus Ward)
British Dictionary definitions for pistil
/ (ˈpɪstɪl) /
the female reproductive part of a flower, consisting of one or more separate or fused carpels; gynoecium
Origin of pistil
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Scientific definitions for pistil
[ pĭs′təl ]
One of the female reproductive organs of a flower, consisting of a single carpel or of several carpels fused together. A flower may have one pistil or more than one, though some flowers lack pistils and bear only the male reproductive organs known as stamens. See more at carpel flower.
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Cultural definitions for pistil
[ (pis-tuhl) ]
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