PISTIL Antonyms

• a very slender natural or synthetic fiber

• the stalk of a stamen

• a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells)

• a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current

• smaller of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in the pollen sac into a male gametophyte

• the fine spores that contain male gametes and that are borne by an anther in a flowering plant

• plant that reproduces by means of seeds not spores

• organ containing or producing spores

• the male reproductive organ of a flower

• (botany) a slender tubular outgrowth from a pollen grain when deposited on the stigma for a flower; it penetrates the style and conveys the male gametes to the ovule