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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pistel \Pis"tel\, Pistil \Pis"til\, noun An epistle. [Obs.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pistil \Pis"til\, noun [L. pistillum, pistillus, a pestle: cf. F. pistil. See {Pestle}.] (Bot.) The seed-bearing organ of a flower. It consists of an ovary, containing the ovules or rudimentary seeds, and a stigma, which is commonly raised on an elongated portion called a style. When composed of one carpel a pistil is simple; when composed of several, it is compound. See Illust. of {Flower}, and {Ovary}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
pistil
noun: the female ovule-bearing part of a flower composed of ovary and style and stigma
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
18 Moby Thesaurus words for "pistil": androecium, anther, calyx, carpel, corolla, corolla tube, corona, epicalyx, gynoecium, megasporophyll, microsporophyll, perianth, petal, receptacle, stamen, stigma, style, torus
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