pistil-bearing
31Balanopaceae — ▪ plant family family of dicotyledonous flowering plants in the order Malpighiales, containing a single genus (Balanops) and nine species of trees and shrubs that have simple, alternately positioned or somewhat whorled leaves. The plants… …
32Caryophyllales — ▪ plant order Introduction pink or carnation order of dicotyledonous flowering plants. The order includes 33 families, which contain more than 11,000 species in 692 genera. Nearly half of the families are very small, with less than a dozen… …
33carpel — [kär′pəl] n. [ModL dim. < Gr karpos, fruit: see HARVEST] 1. a simple pistil, regarded as a single ovule bearing leaf or modified leaflike structure 2. any of the segments of a compound pistil, usually having a single stigma: See PISTIL… …
34Diospyros virginiana — For other uses, see Possumwood (disambiguation). Diospyros virginiana Botanical details of buds, flowers and fruit Scientific classification Kingdom: Planta …
35Ailanthus altissima — Tree of Heaven Large …
36placenta — placental, placentary /plas euhn ter ee, pleuh sen teuh ree/, adj. /pleuh sen teuh/, n., pl. placentas, placentae / tee/. 1. Anat., Zool. the organ in most mammals, formed in the lining of the uterus by the union of the uterine mucous membrane… …
37pollen — pollenless, adj. pollenlike, adj. pollinic /peuh lin ik/, pollinical, adj. /pol euhn/, n. 1. the fertilizing element of flowering plants, consisting of fine, powdery, yellowish grains or spores, sometimes in masses. v.t. 2. to pollinate. [1515… …
38fe´male|ness — fe|male «FEE mayl», noun, adjective. –n. 1. a woman or girl; person of the sex that brings forth young. See syn. under woman. (Cf. ↑woman) 2. an animal belonging to the sex that produces eggs or brings forth young. 3. Botany. a) a flower having a …
39fe|male — «FEE mayl», noun, adjective. –n. 1. a woman or girl; person of the sex that brings forth young. See syn. under woman. (Cf. ↑woman) 2. an animal belonging to the sex that produces eggs or brings forth young. 3. Botany. a) a flower having a pistil… …
40gyn|o|phore — «JIHN uh fr, fohr; JY nuh », noun. an elongation of the receptacle of a flower, situated between the stamens and pistil, and bearing the pistil. ╂[< Greek gyn woman + English phore] …
