adjective
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having pistils but no anthers
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having or producing pistils
Etymology
Origin of pistillate
Example Sentences
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They are the stigmas and styles of the pistillate flowers, borne in the form of a spike called the ear on a branch about midway down the side of the stalk or stem.
From Time Magazine Archive
Heads many-flowered; the flowers all tubular, diœcious, i.e., the pistillate and staminate borne by different plants.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Characters of Amarantus, except that the flowers are completely diœcious and the pistillate ones without calyx.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Erect or often prostrate, the lower clusters at least of pistillate flowers more or less cymose and often in globose heads; bracts thinner, narrow and lax, shorter than the fruit.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Flowers whitish, the outer pistillate with filiform corollas.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
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