The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pistillate \Pis"til*late\, a. (Bot.) Having a pistil or pistils; -- usually said of flowers having pistils but no stamens.
Wiktionary
a. (context botany English) Having pistils
WordNet
adj. bearing or consisting of carpels [syn: carpellate] [ant: acarpelous]
having gynoecia, or pistils, the ovule-bearing organ of a seed plant
Usage examples of "pistillate".
There was need of a variety possessing strong, distinct characteristics, hardy, late to start growth, and with the pistillate and staminate blossoms maturing at the same time and bearing a nut of good quality and flavor with a full rich meat.
A pistillate flower cluster is ripe for fertilization so long as pale, slender pistils emerge from the calyxes.
This is most easily accomplished by changing a pistillate cutting to a staminate (pollen) parent, using a spray of 100 ppm gibberellic acid in water each day for five consecutive days.
What actually happens when a pistillate plant remains unfertilized for its entire life and how this ulti- mately affects the cannabinoid (class of molecules found only in Cannabis) and terpene (a class of aromatic organic compounds) levels remains a mystery.
Because of the horizon- tal branching pattern of Colombian strains and their long growth cycle, pistillate plants tend to produce many flow- ering clusters along the entire length of the stem back to the central stalk.