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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.

Growing on, or having nature of, the pistil; of or pertaining to a pistil. Barton.

Having a pistil or pistils; -- usually said of flowers having pistils but no stamens.

The act of pounding or breaking in a mortar; pestillation. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Same as Archegonium.

Pistillate.

The metamorphosis of other organs into pistils.

A crystallized, transparent mineral of the Zeolite family. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.

An epistle. [Obs.]

Fertilization of the pistil of a plant by pollen from another of the same species; cross-fertilization.

Bearing both staminiferous and pistilliferous flowers in the same cluster.

Either entirely of partially separate, as the carpels of a compound pistil; -- opposed to syncarpous. Lindley.

The pistillidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.

Self-fertilization, the fertilizing pollen being derived from the same blossom as the pistil acted upon.

Mentally dull; stupid. Shak. Barren flower, a flower which has only stamens without a pistil, or which as neither stamens nor pistils. -- Barren Grounds (Geog.), a vast tract in British America northward of the forest regions. -- Barren Ground bear (Zoöl.), a peculiar bear, inhabiting the Barren Grounds, now believed…

Of both sexes; hermaphrodite; as a flower with stamens and pistil, or an animal having ovaries and testes.

A simple pistil or single-celled ovary or seed vessel, or one of the parts of a compound pistil, ovary, or seed vessel. See Illust of Carpaphore.

The absence or suppression of the essential organs (stamens and pistil) in a flower.

An axis to which a carpel of a compound pistil may be attached, as in the case of the geranium; or which is left when a pod opens.

The body formed by the union of the stamens in the Mallow family, or of the stamens and pistil in the orchids. Attached column. See under Attach, v. t. -- Clustered column. See under Cluster, v. t. -- Column rule, a thin strip of brass separating columns of type in the form, and making a line between them in printing…