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The seed-bearing organ of a flower. It consists of an ovary, containing the ovules or rudimentary seeds, and a stigma, which is commonly raised on an elongated portion called a style. When composed of one carpel a pistil is simple; when composed of several, it is compound. See Illust. of Flower, and Ovary.…

A genus of bitter herbs or shrubs having eight stamens and a two-celled ovary (as the Seneca snakeroot, the flowering wintergreen, etc.); milkwort.

That portion of an anthocarpous fruit which is not derived from the ovary, as the soft part of a strawberry or of a fig.

he organs of the flower grow, or into which they are inserted. See Illust. of Flower, and Ovary.

A central cord of the ovary of nematodes.

That part of the ovary from which the ovules arise; the placenta.

The elongated part of a pistil between the ovary and the stigma. See Illust. of Stamen, and of Pistil.

Above the ovary; -- said of parts of the flower which, although normally below the ovary, adhere to it, and so appear to originate from its upper part; also of an ovary when the other floral organs are plainly below it in position, and free from it.

Composed of several carpels consolidated into one ovary.

like a top, or inverted cone; narrow at the base, and broad at the apex; as, a turbinated ovary, pericarp, or root.

e woody fiber interspersed with dotted or annular ducts, and the seed contained in a true ovary; Gymnosperms, having few or no ducts in the woody fiber, and the seeds naked. 2. Monocotyledons (called also Endogens). -- Seeds with single cotyledon. Stems with slender bundles of woody fiber not concentrically arranged,…