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PISTILLATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pistillate mean?
• PISTILLATE (adjective)
The adjective PISTILLATE has 2 senses:
1. bearing or consisting of carpels
2. having gynoecia, or pistils, the ovule-bearing organ of a seed plant
Familiarity information: PISTILLATE used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Bearing or consisting of carpels
Synonyms:
carpellate; pistillate
Domain category:
botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having gynoecia, or pistils, the ovule-bearing organ of a seed plant
Similar:
female (being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop)
Domain category:
botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)
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