pistil


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pistil

the female organs of a flower consisting of the stigma, style, and ovary
Not to be confused with:
pistol – a small hand-held firearm
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pis·til

 (pĭs′təl)
n.
The female, ovule-bearing organ of a flower, including the stigma, style, and ovary.

[French, from New Latin pistillum, from Latin, pestle (from its shape).]
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pistil

(ˈpɪstɪl)
n
(Botany) botany the female reproductive part of a flower, consisting of one or more separate or fused carpels; gynoecium
[C18: from Latin pistillum pestle]
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pis•til

(ˈpɪs tl)

n.
the seed-bearing organ of a flower, consisting when complete of ovary, style, and stigma..
[1570–80; < New Latin pistillum; Latin: pestle]
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pis·til

(pĭs′təl)
The female reproductive organ of a flower, consisting of the ovary, style, and stigma. See more at flower.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.pistil - the female ovule-bearing part of a flower composed of ovary and style and stigmapistil - the female ovule-bearing part of a flower composed of ovary and style and stigma
blossom, flower, bloom - reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts
reproductive structure - the parts of a plant involved in its reproduction
simple pistil - consists of one carpel
compound pistil - consists of two or more fused carpels
pistillode - a sterile vestigial pistil remaining in a staminate flower
style - (botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma
carpel - a simple pistil or one element of a compound pistil
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Translations

pistil

[ˈpɪstɪl] Npistilo m
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pistil

nStempel m, → Pistill nt (spec)
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References in classic literature ?
Some holly-trees bear only male flowers, which have four stamens producing rather a small quantity of pollen, and a rudimentary pistil; other holly-trees bear only female flowers; these have a full-sized pistil, and four stamens with shrivelled anthers, in which not a grain of pollen can be detected.
Those flowers, also, which had their stamens and pistils placed, in relation to the size and habits of the particular insects which visited them, so as to favour in any degree the transportal of their pollen from flower to flower, would likewise be favoured or selected.
A botanist notices that the bee flying with the pollen of a male flower to a pistil fertilizes the latter, and sees in this the purpose of the bee's existence.
The segments of the perianth also closed on the pistil, but more slowly than the stamens.
(3) When the bee visits the next flower, pollen grains rub off on the flower's pistil.
Flowers have a single pistil with one carpel and one ovule.
(5) The fruit and flowering branch with leaves are made to scale in perfect bloom while a single flower, stamen, and pistil are magnified 10-50 times for pedagogical purposes (figures 1 and 2).
Mean while Kot Lalo police arrested a proclaimed offender Mushtaq Ali Solangi after raid near city and recovered of un licensed T.T Pistil and big quantity of cartridges from his possession, police said arrested criminal was wanted in many heinous crimes and courts were declared him as proclaimed offender.
Pistil, located in a basement a stone's throw away from Itaewon Station, is a small, intimate space that caters primarily to fans of deep house, though it will occasionally host DJs playing other styles (such as techno or disco).
On average, each saffron flower has six purple petals, three golden yellow stamens and one red pistil. The pistil itself is made up of three stigmas - or filaments - and it is these that are dried to become saffron.
compared the RNA-seq tags of pistillody stamen and pistil from a pistillody wheat mutant and stamen from the wild-type control to identify differentially expressed genes [17].
pulled back to reveal the pistil, the stamen erect and embraced