PISTILLODE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sterile vestigial pistil remaining in a staminate flower

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

pistil (the female ovule-bearing part of a flower composed of ovary and style and stigma)

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