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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 653 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PISTIL , a See also:

term in See also:botany for the See also:female or See also:seed-bearing See also:organ of a See also:flower (q.v.). The See also:Lat. pistillum (diminutive from pinsere, pistum, to See also:pound), a pestle, a See also:club-headed See also:instrument used for crushing or braying substances in a See also:mortar (q.v.), was taken as the name for this organ from its similarity in shape, and thence adapted in Fr. pistil about the See also:middle of the 18th See also:century. In its See also:complete See also:form a pistil consists of three parts—ovary, at the See also:base, containing the bodies which become seeds, See also:style (Gr. vriiXos, See also:pillar), and stigma (Gr. aTlyµa, See also:mark, vrtTeL), to See also:brand), the See also:part which in impregnation receives the See also:pollen.

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