We will leave it there for a time, and examine the body called the pistil, to which the knob belongs. From Wordnik.com. [The Fairy-Land of Science] Reference
Surrounding the pistil are the stamens, few or many, the anther at the extremity containing the powdery pollen. From Wordnik.com. [My Studio Neighbors] Reference
The female organ is called the pistil, and it has a sticky part on the end to receive pollen called the stigma. From Wordnik.com. [Five Funny Scientific Ideas | Heretical Ideas Magazine] Reference
The pistil is the same as the stamina, only that it extends to a greater length: the stamina and pistil are shaded very light scarlet. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Guide to Wax Flower Modelling] Reference
The stamens have ripened and been pushed off by the lengthened pistil, which is brushed by the back of the bee, and thus is pollinated. From Wordnik.com. [The First Book of Farming] Reference
On a day in a dry summer Sheremiah's wife Catrin drove her cows to drink at the pistil which is in the field of a certain man. From Wordnik.com. [My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People] Reference
= The part of the pistil that contains the ovules. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
= That part of the pistil which receives the pollen. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
The enlargement at the end of the pistil is termed stigma. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Guide to Wax Flower Modelling] Reference
Some of them have stamens for producing pollen, but no pistil. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
Protandry anthers ripening before the pistil in the same flower. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Protogyny pistil ripening before the anthers in the same flower. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The pistil in this case was transformed into several small leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
= That part of the pistil which connects the ovary with the stigma. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Suppression of the pistil has been most frequently recorded in flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
The = pistil = consists of an ovary and two styles ending in plumose stigmas. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Form the pistil of double wax: thicken it at the end to represent the stigma. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Guide to Wax Flower Modelling] Reference
Nigellas, and Pæonies frequently experience a like diminution in their pistil. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Phyllody of the pistil has been most frequently recorded in the following plants. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Cut the pistil and eight stamina as previously directed, and colour them with crimson. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Guide to Wax Flower Modelling] Reference
Colour the pistil and stamina pale pink: darken the end of the pistil to a deep crimson. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Guide to Wax Flower Modelling] Reference
The flowers of grasses are reduced to their essential organs, the stamens and the pistil. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
On the whole, the pistil seems less subject to changes of this character than the androecium. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
It is of interest, as it sometimes serves to illustrate the morphological nature of the pistil. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
The pistil, too, is necessarily subject to very grave alterations when affected with this malformation. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
In this particular instance there is usually no intermediate condition between the stamen and the pistil. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
= -- An increase in the number of whorls of which the pistil consists is not of very frequent occurrence. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
The centre is also similar to the last named, only that there is no pistil or enlargement amongst the stamina. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Guide to Wax Flower Modelling] Reference
These again we turn into the petals of the flower, until via pistil and stamens the fruit and seed are formed. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
The sole remaining carpel had a style and a stigma as perfect in appearance as though the pistil had been complete. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
The pistil was entirely absent and its place was supplied by a branch with numerous perfectly formed stipulate leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Already the attention of the pupils has been directed to the essential organs of the flower, namely, stamens and pistil. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
And when a pollen grain lands on a pistil and joins with the ovule prepared in the ovary, the two components are united again. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
Next in frequency to the calyx, the pistil is subjected to this change -- the carpels in such a case being disunited and leaf-like. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
The six stamens stand on close guard around the pistil, and insects forcing their way to the nectaries are well peppered with pollen. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
Have them watch the bee as it enters the flower and notice how it invariably rubs some part of its pollen-covered body against the pistil. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
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