the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Having a pistil or pistils; -- usually said of flowers having pistils but no stamens.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
In botany, having a pistil: noting a plant or flower provided with a pistil, and most properly said of one having pistils only. See cuts under Abietineæ, breadfruit, and croton.
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adj. bearing or consisting of carpels
adj. having gynoecia, or pistils, the ovule-bearing organ of a seed plant
Word Usage
"The little flowers that grow out of the cyathium are called pistillate flowers."