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pistil

DEFINITIONS OF: pistil

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n the female ovule-bearing part of a flower composed of ovary and style and stigma

Types:: show 5 types...; hide 5 types...; 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; carpel
a simple pistil or one element of a compound pistil; mericarp
a carpel with one seed; one of a pair split apart at maturity

Type of:: reproductive structure
the parts of a plant involved in its reproduction

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