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The male parts are called the Stamen and the female parts are called the Pistil or Carpel.
Pollinators make the world go round (Travelog Europe) DNLee 2009
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The male parts are called the Stamen and the female parts are called the Pistil or Carpel.
Archive 2009-09-01 DNLee 2009
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The Williamsburg (ho ho) pack, for example, comes with a Helga Viking lens, Pistil film and a three-pack of gels (shouldn't that be a six-pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon?)
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Miss Pistil looked thrilled, and squirmed a little to afford Bilbo a better angle for groping.
Up The Line Silverberg, Robert 1969
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Miss Hester Pistil of Brooklyn, New York, a young schoolteacher.
Up The Line Silverberg, Robert 1969
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_ Pistil of flowering raspberry; _e_, ovary; _t_, style; _s_, stigma.
The First Book of Farming Charles Landon Goodrich
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= Pistil =, the part of the flower which produces seeds.
The First Book of Farming Charles Landon Goodrich
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Diplotaxis Flower, Pistil, calyx inflorescence and corolla.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Pistil the female organ of a flower, consisting of the ovary, style and stigma, 16.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Mali cleaned her face and her hands in the Big Pistil from which you draw drinking water, and she brought forth her black garments and put them on her; and because of her age she could not weep.
My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People Caradoc Evans
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