| pistil | | |
| n. (plant) | 1. pistil | the female ovule-bearing part of a flower composed of ovary and style and stigma. |
| ~ blossom, bloom, flower | reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts. |
| ~ reproductive structure | the parts of a plant involved in its reproduction. |
| ~ simple pistil | consists of one carpel. |
| ~ compound pistil | consists of two or more fused carpels. |
| ~ pistillode | a sterile vestigial pistil remaining in a staminate flower. |
| ~ style | (botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma. |
| ~ carpel | a simple pistil or one element of a compound pistil. |
| folk | | |
| n. (group) | 1. common people, folk, folks | people in general (often used in the plural).; "they're just country folk"; "folks around here drink moonshine"; "the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next" |
| ~ people | (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively.; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience" |
| ~ country people, countryfolk | people raised in or living in a rural environment; rustics. |
| ~ gentlefolk | people of good family and breeding and high social status. |
| ~ grass roots | the common people at a local level (as distinguished from the centers of political activity). |
| ~ home folk | folks from your own home town. |
| ~ ragtag, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff, rabble | disparaging terms for the common people. |
| ~ pleb, plebeian | one of the common people. |
| n. (group) | 2. folk, tribe | a social division of (usually preliterate) people. |
| ~ social group | people sharing some social relation. |
| ~ moiety | one of two basic subdivisions of a tribe. |
| ~ phyle | a tribe of ancient Athenians. |
| n. (group) | 3. family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept | people descended from a common ancestor.; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower" |
| ~ people | members of a family line.; "his people have been farmers for generations"; "are your people still alive?" |
| ~ homefolk | the people of your home locality (especially your own family).; "he wrote his homefolk every day" |
| ~ house | aristocratic family line.; "the House of York" |
| ~ dynasty | a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family. |
| ~ gens, name | family based on male descent.; "he had no sons and there was no one to carry on his name" |
| ~ ancestry, blood line, bloodline, lineage, pedigree, line of descent, stemma, parentage, blood, descent, origin, stock, line | the descendants of one individual.; "his entire lineage has been warriors" |
| n. (communication) | 4. ethnic music, folk, folk music | the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community. |
| ~ folk ballad, folk song, folksong | a song that is traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture. |
| ~ schottische | music performed for dancing the schottische. |
| ~ popular music, popular music genre | any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time). |
| ~ c and w, country and western, country music | a simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United States; usually played on stringed instruments. |
| ~ gospel singing, gospel | folk music consisting of a genre of a cappella music originating with Black slaves in the United States and featuring call and response; influential on the development of other genres of popular music (especially soul). |
| ~ square-dance music | music performed for square dancing. |
| inflorescence | | |
| n. (process) | 1. anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, inflorescence | the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms. |
| ~ growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny, maturation, development | (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level.; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children" |
| n. (plant) | 2. inflorescence | the flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk. |
| ~ blossom, bloom, flower | reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts. |
| ~ flower head | a shortened compact cluster of flowers so arranged that the whole gives the effect of a single flower as in clover or members of the family Compositae. |
| ~ ament, catkin | a cylindrical spikelike inflorescence. |
| ~ umbel | flat-topped or rounded inflorescence characteristic of the family Umbelliferae in which the individual flower stalks arise from about the same point; youngest flowers are at the center. |
| ~ corymb | flat-topped or convex inflorescence in which the individual flower stalks grow upward from various points on the main stem to approximately the same height; outer flowers open first. |
| ~ flower cluster | an inflorescence consisting of a cluster of flowers. |
| ~ cyme | more or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens first. |
| ~ spike | (botany) an indeterminate inflorescence bearing sessile flowers on an unbranched axis. |
| ~ bract | a modified leaf or leaflike part just below and protecting an inflorescence. |
| tassel | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. tassel | adornment consisting of a bunch of cords fastened at one end. |
| ~ adornment | a decoration of color or interest that is added to relieve plainness. |
| ~ sword knot | an ornamental tassel on the hilt of a sword. |
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