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The pistil of a plant.

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  1. n. The pistil of a plant.
  2. n. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages.
  3. n. See Poyntel.
  4. 1. (Bot.) The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets [i. e., tablets] . . . and a pointel." Chaucer. 3. (Arch.) See Poyntel. [Obs. or R.]