Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, of or belonging to the pistil.
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The condition of the pistillary organs in prolified flowers has already been alluded to.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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There are cases, however, in which a part only of the pistillary structure thus becomes foliaceous.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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