Used in botany and gardening, not casual conversation. Helps to know when discussing plants.

Botanical Term

Refers specifically to the seed-producing part of the flower. Useful in biology classes.

Specific Function

Part of phrases like 'stigma of the pistil'. Knowing these helps in academic and technical contexts.

Part of Collocations

 and that's what makes the honey that we eat. Here's a close-up picture, or this is actually a regular picture of a water hyacinth, and if you had really, really good vision, with your naked eye, you'd see it about that well. There's the stamen and the pistil. But look what the stamen and the pistil look like in a microscope. That's the stamen.

Pistil