pistil

noun

pis·til ˈpi-stᵊl

: a single carpel or group of fused carpels usually differentiated into an ovary, style, and stigma see flower illustration

Examples of pistil in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Real weed may have orange or reddish pistils protruding from between the leaves. —

Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 26 Aug. 2023 Some new features of this year’s show include a mile-wide waving flag with red, white and blue palm and strobing shells and a sunflower ring with crackling pistil shells. —

Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 3 July 2023 The show will last 25 minutes and feature 30 different colors and shapes, including new effects for this year like a mile-wide waving flag and a sunflower ring with crackling pistil shells. —

Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2023 The pistil of one flower is replaced by the lion's eye. —

Gabi Thorne, Allure, 2 Feb. 2022 The Rose Mantique necklace is a naturalistic expression featuring gold branches dusted with diamonds, colorful petals in garnets, amethysts, rhodolite, and Paraiba tourmalines, and a blue Myanmar sapphire pistil. —

Jill N Newman, Town & Country, 9 July 2021 When the pollen from one tree’s flower meets the pistil of the flower of another, a small miracle of creation occurs. —

Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 8 June 2020 Wash and shell the broad beans, clean the zucchini blossoms and remove the pistil, and wash and mince the wild fennel. —

Alisha Prakash, Travel + Leisure, 6 Apr. 2020 Martinez uses natural materials — bee pollen for yellow and tar for the pistils in paintings of sunflowers — to mix his own pigments. —

Deborah Martin, ExpressNews.com, 26 Feb. 2020 See More

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