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pistil
[ pis-tl ]
noun
, Botany.
- 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.
pistil
/ ˈpɪstɪl /
noun
- the female reproductive part of a flower, consisting of one or more separate or fused carpels; gynoecium
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
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pistil1
C18: from Latin pistillum pestle
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Example Sentences
When what does my gentleman do but whips out an 'oss pistil as long as my harm, and shoots my left 'and neighbor dead!
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Thar was a young man named Jeames Hambrick along and another young feller, he got to fooling with his pistil, and he shot Jeames.
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The single pistil is many times enlarged in the monstrous blossom—in one instance two thirds of an inch in diameter for the ovary.
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Within the circle above mentioned there was a second pistil, tipped like the original with petal-like lobes instead of a stigma.
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In many flowers the pistil is entirely wanting, and the plant is perhaps diœcious.
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