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spec. The thread-like style and stigma of a flower, esp. the stigma of the saffron crocus. Obsolete.
Botany. That part of the pistil in flowering plants which receives the pollen in impregnation, of very various form, situated either directly on the…
Botany. (See quot. 1776) Obsolete. rare.