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Having a pistil or pistils; -- usually said of flowers having pistils but no stamens.
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An imperfect flower with a pistil, or seed organ, but having no functional stamens (male pollen producing organs).
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with pistils ; and usually employed in the sense of without stamens.
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bearing the female parts of the flower
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bearing or consisting of carpels
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having gynoecia, or pistils, the ovule-bearing organ of a seed plant
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Bearing pistils, but no stamen.
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With pistils, but lacking stamens; "female".
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flower with female parts but the male parts are absent.
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A flower bearing pistils but no stamens.
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The part of the leaf that contains female portions of flowers, or the pistils
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having only pistils (lacking staminate (pollen-producing) organs).
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n., said of a flower bearing a pistil or pistils but not stamens, may refer also to a plant having only pistillate flowers.
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unisexual flower having only female reproductive organs.
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Applied to spikelets bearing female parts only and to an inflorescence or a plant with female flowers.
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Pistillate (or "female") flowers are ones which have a functional pistil, capable of producing seeds—but either have no stamens at all, or have stamens with anthers that are incapable of producing pollen.
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A flower with one or more pistils, but no stamens.
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Referring to flowers with pistils and no functional stamens; female.
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