Pistil - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: pistilPistillate
Having a pistil or pistils usually said of flowers having pistils but no stamens...
Pistil
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...
Hypogynous
Inserted below the pistil or pistils said of sepals petals and stamens having the sepals petals and stamens inserted below the pistil said of a flower or a plant...
Carpel
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...
Pistillaceous
Growing on or having nature of the pistil of or pertaining to a pistil...
Bisexual
Of both sexes hermaphrodite as a flower with stamens and pistil or an animal having ovaries and testes...
Cenanthy
The absence or suppression of the essential organs stamens and pistil in a flower...
Columella
An axis to which a carpel of a compound pistil may be attached as in the case of the geranium or which is left when a pod opens...
Conductive
Having the quality or power of conducting as the conductive tissue of a pistil...
Cryptogamia
The series or division of flowerless plants or those never having true stamens and pistils but propagated by spores of various kinds...
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