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Definition of pistil

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Pistil (n.) The seed-bearing organ of a flower. It consists of an ovary, containing the ovules or rudimentary seeds, and a stigma, which is commonly raised on an elongated portion called a style. When composed of one carpel a pistil is simple; when composed of several, it is compound. See Illust. of Flower, and Ovary..

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

Gynoecium :: Gynoecium (n.) The pistils of a flower, taken collectively. See Illust. of Carpophore..

Cryptogamia :: Cryptogamia (n.) The series or division of flowerless plants, or those never having true stamens and pistils, but propagated by spores of various kinds..

Trigynous :: Trigynous (a.) Having three pistils or styles; of or pertaining to the Trigynia.

Conductive :: Conductive (a.) Having the quality or power of conducting; as, the conductive tissue of a pistil..

Cenanthy :: Cenanthy (n.) The absence or suppression of the essential organs (stamens and pistil) in a flower.

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..

Hexagynous :: Hexagynous (a.) Having six pistils.

Mule :: Mule (n.) A plant or vegetable produced by impregnating the pistil of one species with the pollen or fecundating dust of another; -- called also hybrid.

Perfect :: Perfect (a.) Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower.

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

Octagynous :: Octagynous (a.) Having eight pistils or styles; octogynous.

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

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

Double :: Double (a.) Having the petals in a flower considerably increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally double..

Gynophore :: Gynophore (n.) The pedicel raising the pistil or ovary above the stamens, as in the passion flower..

Diclinous :: Diclinous (a.) Having the stamens and pistils in separate flowers.

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..

Autogamy :: Autogamy (n.) Self-fertilization, the fertilizing pollen being derived from the same blossom as the pistil acted upon..

Heterogony :: Heterogony (n.) The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers, different as to the length of their stamens and pistils..