Noun: pistil
| Singular | pistil |
| Plural | pistils |
Sample Sentences
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Some plant species have more than one pistil per flower.
Nouns inflected like pistil
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French pistil. Doublet of pestle and pistillum. See: French Nouns '
pistil'.