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Definition of Pistillode
1. Noun. A sterile vestigial pistil remaining in a staminate flower.
Medical Definition of Pistillode
1. A sterile pistil, often rudimentary. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pistillode
Literary usage of Pistillode
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences by Washington Academy of Sciences (1915)
"The characters assigned by Drude to Archontophoenix—the short pistillode, the
thin adherent endocarp, and the broad, adnate raphe—are in fact possessed by ..."
2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"Pollen smooth; pistillode reduced to a small gland, i. Tendrils not branched:
connective usually produced upward beyond locule.. .17. ..."
3. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium by United States National Herbarium, United States National Museum (1905)
"... pistillode minute; capsule 3.7 cm. in diameter, very variable in shape, ...
of the style (pistillode) smooth, short, irregularly sub- pyramidal. ..."
4. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society by Straits Branch (1904)
"Stamens 14 white, filaments very short, anthers oblong, no pistillode. ...
pistillode conic stout as long as the stamens. Female flowers. ..."
5. Catalogue of the African Plants by William Philip Hiern, Alfred Barton Rendle, Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch (1900)
"... male flowers with a hyaline unequally 3- to 5-partite or -cleft perianth ;
stamen solitary, the filaments united below to an abortive pistillode; ..."
6. The Useful plants of the island of Guam: With an Introductory Account of the by William Edwin Safford (1905)
"... male sepals 4, concave; pistillode minute; female flower with pt. ...
pistillode small; female flowers with 4-lobed or 4-parted perianth, ..."
7. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences by Washington Academy of Sciences (1915)
"The characters assigned by Drude to Archontophoenix—the short pistillode, the
thin adherent endocarp, and the broad, adnate raphe—are in fact possessed by ..."
8. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"Pollen smooth; pistillode reduced to a small gland, i. Tendrils not branched:
connective usually produced upward beyond locule.. .17. ..."
9. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium by United States National Herbarium, United States National Museum (1905)
"... pistillode minute; capsule 3.7 cm. in diameter, very variable in shape, ...
of the style (pistillode) smooth, short, irregularly sub- pyramidal. ..."
10. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society by Straits Branch (1904)
"Stamens 14 white, filaments very short, anthers oblong, no pistillode. ...
pistillode conic stout as long as the stamens. Female flowers. ..."
11. Catalogue of the African Plants by William Philip Hiern, Alfred Barton Rendle, Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch (1900)
"... male flowers with a hyaline unequally 3- to 5-partite or -cleft perianth ;
stamen solitary, the filaments united below to an abortive pistillode; ..."
12. The Useful plants of the island of Guam: With an Introductory Account of the by William Edwin Safford (1905)
"... male sepals 4, concave; pistillode minute; female flower with pt. ...
pistillode small; female flowers with 4-lobed or 4-parted perianth, ..."
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