Of plants: designating individuals of dioecious species whose flowers bear pistils and develop seeds or fruits, but lack functional stamens (cf…

= pistillar, adj.

= pistillate, adj. Opposed to staminiferous.

Originally: having or consisting of a pistil. Later: spec. (of a flower) having a pistil or pistils but no stamens (or only sterile stamens); (of a…

Botany. Pertaining to, constituting, or having the character of a stigma: see stigma, n. 6. In quot. 1902, having a stigma, stigmatiferous.

Bearing a stigma.

Bearing a style or styles. Botany (see style, n. 8).

= pistillate, adj. rare.

Bearing pistils.

= pistillar, adj.

= pistillar, adj. Obsolete.

Of or belonging to the style; stylar.

Of, relating to, or of the nature of a pistil.

Resembling a pistil.

Having the form of a stigma (in sense 5a, 5c, or 6).