pistilo
Letters
7 characters
Language
Spanish
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pistilo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Órgano reproductor vegetal ensanchado en la base, donde está el ovario, que se prolonga con el estilo, tubo estrecho terminado en un engrosamiento, el estigma, ubicado en el centro de la flor. Pued... Pronounced [pisˈt̪ilo].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pistilo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pisˈt̪ilo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for pistilo is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pisˈt̪ilo]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for pistilo in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is pistilo, spelled P-I-S-T-I-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Órgano reproductor vegetal ensanchado en la base, donde está el ovario, que se prolonga con el estilo, tubo estrecho terminado en un engrosamiento, el estigma, ubicado en el centro de la flor. Puede equivaler a un gineceo monocarpelar o a un gineceo policarpelar con varios carpelos soldados. Si una flor tiene los carpelos libres, cada uno formará un pistilo.
- 2Utensilio alargado con un abultamiento en su extremo que se utiliza para triturar o mezclar sustancias en un mortero.
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