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Definitions of pistil in various dictionaries:
noun - the female ovule-bearing part of a flower composed of ovary and style and stigma
The female, ovule-bearing organ of a flower, including the stigma, style, and ovary.
noun - the seed-bearing organ of flowering plants
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| The stigma is the sticky area at the top of this female part of a flower |
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| The female, ovule-bearing organ of a flower, including the stigma, style, and ovary. |
| the female organs of a flower, comprising the stigma, style, and ovary. |
| the female ovule-bearing part of a flower composed of ovary and style and stigma |
| the female reproductive part of a flower, consisting of one carpel or a group of carpels joined together |
| the female part of a flower, consisting of one or more of the organs that produce seeds |
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Gynoecium (from Ancient Greek , gyne, meaning woman, and , oikos, meaning house) is most commonly used as a collective term for the parts of a flower that produce ovules and ultimately develop into the fruit and seeds. The gynoecium is the innermost whorl of (one or more) pistils in a flower and is typically surrounded by the pollen-producing reproductive organs, the stamens, collectively called the androecium. The gynoecium is often referred to as the "female" portion of the flower, although rather than directly producing female gametes (i.e. egg cells), the gynoecium produces megaspores, each of which develops into a female gametophyte which then produces egg cells. * The term gynoecium is also used by botanists to refer to a cluster of archegonia and any associated modified leaves or stems present on a gametophyte shoot in mosses, liverworts and hornworts. The corresponding terms for the male parts of those plants are clusters of antheridia within the androecium. * Flowers that bear a g |