: a single carpel or group of fused carpels usually differentiated into an ovary, style, and stigma see flower illustration
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Additional effects include cross rings, strobing comets, waterfalls, Saturn circles, crackling pistils and special ghost pyro that alternates colors featuring multiple hues, NBC says.
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Denise Petski, Deadline, 2 July 2024
Real weed may have orange or reddish pistils protruding from between the leaves.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 26 Aug. 2023
Some new features of this year’s show include a mile-wide waving flag with red, white and blue palm and strobing shells and a sunflower ring with crackling pistil shells.
—Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 3 July 2023
The show will last 25 minutes and feature 30 different colors and shapes, including new effects for this year like a mile-wide waving flag and a sunflower ring with crackling pistil shells.
—Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2023
The pistil of one flower is replaced by the lion's eye.
—Gabi Thorne, Allure, 2 Feb. 2022
The Rose Mantique necklace is a naturalistic expression featuring gold branches dusted with diamonds, colorful petals in garnets, amethysts, rhodolite, and Paraiba tourmalines, and a blue Myanmar sapphire pistil.
—Jill N Newman, Town & Country, 9 July 2021
When the pollen from one tree’s flower meets the pistil of the flower of another, a small miracle of creation occurs.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 8 June 2020
Wash and shell the broad beans, clean the zucchini blossoms and remove the pistil, and wash and mince the wild fennel.
—Alisha Prakash, Travel + Leisure, 6 Apr. 2020
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Denise Petski, Deadline, 2 July 2024
Real weed may have orange or reddish pistils protruding from between the leaves.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 26 Aug. 2023
Some new features of this year’s show include a mile-wide waving flag with red, white and blue palm and strobing shells and a sunflower ring with crackling pistil shells.
—Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 3 July 2023
The show will last 25 minutes and feature 30 different colors and shapes, including new effects for this year like a mile-wide waving flag and a sunflower ring with crackling pistil shells.
—Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2023
The pistil of one flower is replaced by the lion's eye.
—Gabi Thorne, Allure, 2 Feb. 2022
The Rose Mantique necklace is a naturalistic expression featuring gold branches dusted with diamonds, colorful petals in garnets, amethysts, rhodolite, and Paraiba tourmalines, and a blue Myanmar sapphire pistil.
—Jill N Newman, Town & Country, 9 July 2021
When the pollen from one tree’s flower meets the pistil of the flower of another, a small miracle of creation occurs.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 8 June 2020
Wash and shell the broad beans, clean the zucchini blossoms and remove the pistil, and wash and mince the wild fennel.
—Alisha Prakash, Travel + Leisure, 6 Apr. 2020
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pistil
noun
pis·til
ˈpis-tᵊl 
: the seed-producing part of a flower consisting usually of stigma, style, and ovary
Etymology
from scientific Latin pistillum "pistil," from Latin pistillum "pestle for grinding material in a mortar"
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