英语词汇pistil的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	pistil
词源	pistil. Apothecaries in ancient times used a club-shaped in- strument called the pistillum to pound herbs and drugs in their mortars. Eventually, the name of this instrument was abbrevi- ated to pestle, but when botanists named the similar-shaped fe- male organs of flowers after it, they more carefully followed the old Latin name and called the female organs pistils.
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