pistillate

2 definitions found

pistillate - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Pistillate \Pis"til*late\, a. (Bot.)
     Having a pistil or pistils; -- usually said of flowers having
     pistils but no stamens.
     [1913 Webster]

pistillate - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  pistillate
      adj 1: bearing or consisting of carpels [syn: carpellate,
             pistillate] [ant: acarpellous, acarpelous]
      2: having gynoecia, or pistils, the ovule-bearing organ of a
         seed plant