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pistillate

pistillate adjective: having functional pistils.

Adjective

pistillate (comparative more pistillate, superlative most pistillate)

  1. Having functional pistils.
    • The tree is diaecious, and those who would have fruit must be careful to get both staminate and pistillate trees.1895, The Minnesota Horticulturist: Annual report, page 179
    Synonyms:
    carpellate

pistillate meaning in Tamil

pistillate in Tamil

யோனியுள்ள

Synonyms of pistillate

Forms of pistillate

comparativemore pistillate
superlativemost pistillate

Origin of pistillate

From pistil + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Questions about pistillate

What does pistillate mean?
Pistillate means having functional pistils.
What is pistillate in Tamil?
Pistillate in Tamil is யோனியுள்ள. See Pistillate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pistillate?
Pistillate is an adjective.

Words near pistillate in the dictionary

  1. pistil
  2. pistilla
  3. pistillaceous
  4. pistillar
  5. pistillary
  6. pistillate
  7. pistillation
  8. Pistilli
  9. pistillidia
  10. pistillidium
  11. pistilliferous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pistillate (page history and authors); pistillate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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