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Formed from one pistil; -- said of fruits. R. Brown.

A plant or vegetable produced by impregnating the pistil of one species with the pollen or fecundating dust of another; -- called also hybrid.

as no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; esp., one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers.…

Having eight pistils or styles; octogynous.

ss of plants, in which the flowers have eight stamens not united to one another or to the pistil.

A Linnaean order of plants having eight pistils.

Having eight pistils; octagynous.

hich the genus Orchis is the type. They are mostly perennial herbs having the stamens and pistils united in a single column, and normally three petals and three sepals, all adherent to the ovary. The flowers are curiously shaped, often resembling insects, the odd or lower petal (called the lip) being unlike the others,…

That part of the pistil which contains the seed, and in most flowering plants develops into the fruit. See Illust. of Flower.

A Linnæan order of plants, having five styles or pistils.

ch set, as a flower with five sepals, five petals, five, or twice five, stamens, and five pistils.

Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower. Perfect cadence (Mus.), a complete and satisfactory close in harmony, as upon the tonic preceded by the dominant. -- Perfect chord (Mus.), a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly coalescent and agreeable to the ear, as the unison, octave, fifth…

Some unusual appendage about the pistil, as the bottle-shaped body in the sedges, and the bristles or scales in some other genera of the Sedge family, or Cyperaceæ.

Having visible flowers containing distinct stamens and pistils; -- said of plants.

Homologous with a leaf; as, the sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils are phyllous organs.

The part of a pistil or fruit to which the ovules or seeds are attached.

The pistil of a plant.

Having several pistils in one flower.

Having the stamens come to maturity before the pistil; -- opposed to proterogynous.

Having the pistil come to maturity before the stamens; protogynous; -- opposed to proterandrous.