Sentence examples for female structure from inspiring English sources

to the pistil, or female structure, where fertilization occurs.

The female structure (pistil) is superior (positioned above the other flower parts) and composed of five carpels (structural segments), which enclose one chamber containing a single ovule.

All species in the family have bisexual, regular, dish-shaped flowers with one superior pistil (female structure) and many stamens (male parts).

The pistil (female structure) is composed of two carpels, which are united to form a compound ovary with a terminal style.

The female structure, or pistil, is positioned above the attachment point of the other flower parts and is composed of one carpel (ovule-bearing structural unit) containing one ovule.

The least specialized flowers are those with a calyx of three sepals, a corolla of three petals, a male complement of six stamens, and a female structure of three distinct carpels, each with one ovule.

The male structures are disk-shaped with scalloped edges; the female structures have nine fingerlike projections.

Sporophytes (asexual plants) develop from fertilized eggs in the female structures.

In most members of the suborder, flowers are unisexual; that is, male and female structures occur in separate flowers.

A uterus is always present, but the internal genitalia otherwise vary greatly, often including both male and female structures.

Both the male and female structures that appear to be flowers are actually clusters of flowers, each flower being reduced to a few stamens or a single carpel.