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Definition of Pistillate

1. Adjective. Bearing or consisting of carpels.

2. Adjective. Having gynoecia, or pistils, the ovule-bearing organ of a seed plant.

Definition of Pistillate

1. a. Having a pistil or pistils; -- usually said of flowers having pistils but no stamens.

Definition of Pistillate

1. Adjective. (botany) Having pistils ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pistillate

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Pistillate

1. Said of a flower bearing a pistil or pistils but not stamens, may refer also to a plant having only pistillate flowers. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pistillate

pistacias pistacite pistacites pistareen pistareens pistazite pistazites piste pistes pistia

pistic pistick pisticks pistil pistillaceous pistillate (current term) pistillation pistillidia pistillidium pistilliferous

pistillode pistillody pistils pistle pistles pistol pistol-shot femoral sound pistol-shot sound pistol-whip pistol-whipping

Literary usage of Pistillate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1896)
"~f~ pistillate spikes erect or somewhat spreading (drooping when mature in no. ... Terminal spike staminate below, pistillate above (rarely all staminate in ..."

2. Manual of Botany, for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1829)
"spikes distinct ; staminate spike oblong, peduncled ; pistillate spikes ... has pistillate spikes in pairs, sub-approximate, and the tat twice as long as ..."

3. Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary, and Physiological: With by Lincoln Phelps (1849)
"POTE'RIUM. Staminate flowers : calyx 4- leaved ; corolla 4 parted ; stamens 30 to 50. pistillate flowers: calyx and corolla like the Staminate ; pistils 2 ..."

4. American Agriculturist (1847)
"70, a sterile pistillate blossom. By natural plants, I presume Mr. Downing means such as are found wild in our poor old fields, and such as are produced ..."

5. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1861)
"In growing seedlings from pistillate sorts, we have found that not more than one in ten retained its pistillate character; and we have never been able to ..."

6. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"Sepals small, acute; stamens 6; pistillate IK with petals a lit- \sperma. tie longer than ... Stamens very numerous; pistillate fls. have no staminodes : If ..."

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