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\"\"<\/a>Female reproductive part of a flower.<\/p>\n

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(In apocarpous flowers) the unit of separate carpel, style and stigma (Bell, 2008, Hickey & King, 2000);<\/p>\n

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(In syncarpous flowers) the whole gynoecium (Bell, 2008, Hickey & King, 2000);<\/p>\n

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The female organ of a flower, consisting when complete of ovary, style and stigma (Jackson, 1928).<\/p>\n

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The female organ of a flower, ordinarily differentiated into an ovary, style, and stigma.<\/p>\n

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Female flowering structure, typically consisting of an ovary (containing one or more eggs, later to be fertilized and grow into seeds), a neck-like style, and a stigma which receives pollen from the male flowering structure, or anther. Pistils and anthers may be contained within the same flower or in separate flowers.<\/p>\n

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The egg-bearing (female) part of a flower, which includes the ovary, style, and stigma.<\/p>\n

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The female organ of the flower, composed of ovary, style, and stigma. Once fertilized, it develops the fruit.<\/p>\n

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The ovary-bearing female organ of a flower.<\/p>\n

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The organ of a flower which bears ovules and later seeds.<\/p>\n

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The female organs of a flower (usually central), taken as a whole.<\/p>\n

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Female reproductive structures with ovary, containing ovules that develop into seeds, and style, a stalk above the ovary bearing the stigma, which is the receptacle for pollen, which contains sperm.<\/p>\n

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The female organ of a flower, composed of an ovary, a slender style, and a stigma or stigmas at tip.<\/p>\n

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The seed-producing, or female, unit of a flower, typically consisting of the ovary, style, and stigma; a flower may have one to several separate pistils.<\/p>\n

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The female part of a flower, consisting of the stigma, style, and ovary.<\/p>\n

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The female organ of a flower comprising ovary (the \u2018seed box\u2019), stigma (the sticky or feathery tip of the pistil which receives the pollen) and style (the part that connects the ovary and stigma).<\/p>\n

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The female organ of a flower, consisting of the ovary or seed-box, the style and the stigma which develop into the fruit after fertilization.<\/p>\n

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