Pin-eyed 



A DICTIONARY 



Pistilliferous 



PIN-EYED, a florist's term for 

 certain flowers which have the 

 style more conspicuous than 

 the stamens. Compare Thrum- 

 eyed. 



PIN'NA (pi. PIn'nae), a leaflet, or 

 branch of a piunately-com- 

 pound leaf. 



PINNATE, having leaflets borne 

 along a common petiole; piu- 

 nately compound. Compare 

 Bipinnate and Tripinnate. 

 See Leaflet. 



PiN'NATED, see Pinnate. 



PINNATELY COMPOUND, see 



Pinnate. 



PiN'NATELY CLfiFT, see PlN- 



NATIFID. 



PiN'NATELY DECOMPOUND', bi- 

 pinnate, or further divided in 

 a pinnate manner. 



PiN'NATELY DlVI'DED, see Pin- 



NATISECT. 



PiN'NATELY LOBED, having 

 several lobes of about the 

 same size on each side of an 

 elongated leaf; pinnatilobate. 



PiN'NATELY PARTED, see Pin- 



NATIPARTITE. 



PiN'NATELY TER'NATE, see 



PlNNATELY TRIFOLIATE. 



PiN'NATELY TRIFO'LlATE, tri- 

 foliolate, with at least the ter- 

 minal leaflet distinctly stalked; 

 pinnately ternate. 



PIN'NATELY VEINED, having 

 one primary vein or midrib 

 from which secondary veins 

 run parallel toward the mar- 

 gin, as in the beech; feather- 

 veined. 



PlNNAT'lFlD, pinnately veined 

 with marginal divisions reach- 

 ing about half-way to the mid- 

 rib. 



PlNNATlLO'BATE, see Pin- 

 nately LOBED. 



PInnATIPAR'TITE, having mar- 

 ginal divisions in a pinnate leaf 

 reaching nearly to the base; 

 pinnately parted. 



PiNNAT'lSECT, having the lobes 

 of a pinnate leaf divided to the 

 midrib but not petioled. 



PlN'NIFORM, like a feather. 



PlN'NINERVED, see Pinnately 

 Veined. 



PiN'NULA (pi. Pin'nulse), see 

 Pinnule. 



PiN'NULATE, having pinnules. 



PlN'NULE, a secondary or other 

 subordinate pinna, as in pin- 

 nately compound or pinnately 

 decompound leaves. 



PlP, originally any seed, now 

 sometimes applied to the seeds 

 of the apple and to some other 

 small seeds or seed- like bodies, 

 including the little bulbs of 

 lily-of-the- valley. 



PI'SlFdRM, pea-sbaped. 



PlS'TlL, the central seed-bearing 

 organ of a flower, consisting of 

 one or more united carpet*. It 

 consists of the seed-containing 

 portion called ovary, the pollen- 

 receiving part called stigma, 

 and generally an intervening 

 stem called the style. Usually 

 there is but one pistil in a flow- 

 er, but when, as in the- straw- 

 berry, there are several distinct 

 bodies as here described seated 

 upon the receptacle, each is 

 properly called a pistil. 



PlS'TlLLARY C6RD, an old and 

 inappropriate name for the con- 

 ductive tissue of the style. See 

 Conductive Tissue. 



PlS'TlLLATE, said of a flower 

 containing pistils but no fer- 

 tile stamens. 



PiSTlLLlD'lUM (pi. PIstillid'Ia), 

 see Archegonium. 



PlSTlLLlF'fSROUS, bearing pis- 

 tils, or pistils without stamens. 



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