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Definition of Pistils
1. pistil [n] - See also: pistil
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pistils
Literary usage of Pistils
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Information for the People: A Popular Encyclopaedia by William Chambers, Robert Chambers (1853)
"Those having from one to four pistils are named as in the preceding classes ;
those having five pistils belong to the fifth order, ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"To attain the end of cross-fertilization—the carrying of the pollen from the
stamens of one plant to the pistils of another—two methods appear to be open to ..."
3. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "Lessons in Botany by Asa Gray (1887)
"Accordingly, there is no style, in many pistils : in these the stigma is sessile,
that is, rests directly on the ovary (as in Fig. 320). ..."
4. The Indiana Weed Book by Willis Stanley Blatchley (1912)
"If both stamens and pistils are absent, as iu the ray flowers of some Com- posit*
... The pistils, or female parts of the flower, which produce the young or ..."
5. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology, and by Alphonso Wood (1873)
"THE NUMBER of the pistils is by no means confined to the radical of the flower.
... Certain terms are employed to denote the number of pistils in the flower ..."
6. An Arrangement of British Plants: According to the Latest Improvements of by William Withering (1830)
"The disposition of the stamens and pistils varying, occasions the following
DISTINCTIONS OF ... Florets tubular in the centre, with stamens and pistils. ..."
7. Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary, and Physiological: With by Lincoln Phelps (1846)
"Although in the case of plants whose stamens and pistils are on separate ...
ALTHOUGH the calyx and the corolla may be wanting, the stamens and pistils are ..."
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