A sprout, a slender blade of grass, etc.; the pistil or stamen of flowers; a fibre.

Applied to the filamentous organs in flowers, esp. to the style or stigma: see chive, n.2, and chire, n.1

A firebrand, a torch.

gen. A general name for ‘threads’ or filamentous organs in flowers, i.e. stamens and pistils.

Hence applied to the pistil or the spadix of certain flowers. Obsolete.

[Perhaps not the same word. In sense 2b perhaps a diminutive of dod, n.2, Dutch dodde club.] A pistil.

Botany. = pistil, n. Obsolete. rare.

Botany. A pointed organ in a flower; spec. the pistil, the style, a stamen. Also occasionally: some or all of these organs collectively. Now rare.

Botany. A style or pistil. Obsolete.

Botany. A narrowed prolongation of the ovary, which, when present, supports the stigma at its apex.

= pistil, n.

The female reproductive organ of a flower, usually comprising an ovary, style, and stigma.

Botany. = style, n. 8.

Botany. = style, n. 8.

Botany. The upright cylindrical structure formed by the coalescence of the filaments, as in the mallow, or by the union of the stamens with the…

The flat or conical enlargement of the receptacle of a flower supporting the gynæceum.

Botany. The female organs of a flower, collectively. Now usually spelt gynœcium n. having been supposed to be from Greek οἰκίον house; under the…

The double fleshy disk from which the style of the Umbelliferæ arises.

= stylopodium, n.

the sheath of a gynaeceum.

A sterile or rudimentary pistil.

Formerly also = column, n. 7.