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Disk :: Disk (n.) A part of the receptacle enlarged or expanded under, or around, or even on top of, the pistil..

Neuter :: Neuter (n.) An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; esp., one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers..

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

Carpellum :: Carpellum (n.) A simple pistil or single-celled ovary or seed vessel, or one of the parts of a compound pistil, ovary, or seed vessel. See Illust of Carpaphore..

Trigynia :: Trigynia (n. pl.) A Linnaean order of plants having three pistils or styles.

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

Pointal :: Pointal (n.) The pistil of a plant.

Monothalmic :: Monothalmic (a.) Formed from one pistil; -- said of fruits.

Pistillation :: Pistillation (n.) The act of pounding or breaking in a mortar; pestillation.

Hexagynia :: Hexagynia (n. pl.) A Linnaean order of plants having six pistils.

Style :: Style (v. t.) The elongated part of a pistil between the ovary and the stigma. See Illust. of Stamen, and of Pistil..

Dichogamy :: Dichogamy (n.) The condition of certain species of plants, in which the stamens and pistil do not mature simultaneously, so that these plants can never fertilize themselves..

Gynandrous :: Gynandrous (a.) Having stamens inserted in the pistil; belonging to the class Gynandria.

Proterogynous :: Proterogynous (a.) Having the pistil come to maturity before the stamens; protogynous; -- opposed to proterandrous.

Enneagynous :: Enneagynous (a.) Having or producing nine pistils or styles; -- said of a flower or plant.

Pistil :: Pistil (n.) An epistle.

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..

Epistilbite :: Epistilbite (n.) A crystallized, transparent mineral of the Zeolite family. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime..

Endecagynous :: Endecagynous (a.) Having eleven pistils; as, an endecagynous flower..

Keel :: Keel (n.) The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and inclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina. See Carina..

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