pistil

noun Botany.

1. the ovule-bearing or seed-bearing female organ of a flower, consisting when complete of ovary, style, and stigma.
2. such organs collectively, where there are more than one in a flower.
3. a gynoecium.

noun

1. the female reproductive part of a flower, consisting of one or more separate or fused carpels; gynoecium

n.“female organ of a flower,” 1718, from French pistil, from Modern Latin pistillum “a pistil,” so called from resemblance to a pestle, from Latin pistillum “pestle” (see pestle). Related: Pistillary; pistillaceous; pistillate; pistilline.

1. One of the female reproductive organs of a flower, consisting of a single carpel or of several carpels fused together. A flower may have one pistil or more than one, though some flowers lack pistils and bear only the male reproductive organs known as stamens. See more at carpel flower.

The female part of a plant. In flowering plants, it is at the center of the flower. When fertilized with pollen, the pistil develops into fruit.