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The pistil of a plant.

• Plantation
  The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth.
• Plant-cane
  A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon.
• Pistillaceous
  Growing on, or having nature of, the pistil; of or pertaining to a pistil.
• Plant-eating
  Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.
• Pistillate
  Having a pistil or pistils; -- usually said of flowers having pistils but no stamens.
• Pistillation
  The act of pounding or breaking in a mortar; pestillation.
• Plantership
  The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.
• Pistillida
  of Pistillidium
• Planticle
  A young plant, or plant in embryo.
• Pistillidium
  Same as Archegonium.
• Plantigrada
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• Pistilliferous
  Pistillate.
• Plantigrade
  Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades.
• Pistillody
  The metamorphosis of other organs into pistils.
• Plantless
  Without plants; barren of vegetation.

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