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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having pistils but no stamens.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, having a pistil: noting a plant or flower provided with a pistil, and most properly said of one having pistils only. See cuts under Abietineæ, breadfruit, and croton.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Having a pistil or pistils; -- usually said of flowers having pistils but no stamens.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective botany Having pistils

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective bearing or consisting of carpels
  • adjective having gynoecia, or pistils, the ovule-bearing organ of a seed plant

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