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PISTIL

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("pistil" is a kind of...):

reproductive structure (the parts of a plant involved in its reproduction)

Meronyms (parts of "pistil"):

style ((botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pistil"):

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)

Holonyms ("pistil" is a part of...):

bloom; blossom; flower (reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts)

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