单词 | pistillate |
释义 | pistillateadj. Botany. 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 plant or inflorescence) having such flowers. Also of a stage of floral development, esp. in a dichogamous plant: characterized by the presence of mature or receptive pistils. Opposed to staminate. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [adjective] > having or relating to parts > of or having stamens or pistils > of or having style, pistil, or female parts femalea1398 pistillaceous1760 pistilliferous1785 pistillate1828 stigmatic1830 stigmatiferous1831 styliferous1835 pistilline1842 pistilligerous1845 pistillary1848 pistilline1854 styline1866 pistillar1876 pistilloid1877 stigmatiform1888 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Pistillate, having or consisting in a pistil. 1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. ii. i. 403 ♀ a pistillate flower. 1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. vi. 191 Flowers are..Pistillate..when the pistils are present and the stamens absent. 1914 F. E. Fritsch & E. J. Salisbury Introd. Study Plants xx. 252 When the stamens wither, the four lobes of the stigma curl back (..i.e. we now enter on the female or pistillate stage). 1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. viii. 180 Any individual [sc. unisexual] flower is either male (staminate) or female (pistillate). 1991 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 78 1044 The length of the pistillate phase depends on pollinator activity, as pollination accelerates the abscission of floral parts. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1828 |
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