pointal

From point: compare French pointal (“an upright wooden prop”), Old French pointille (“a prick or prickle”).

pointal (plural pointals)

1. (obsolete, botany) The pistil of a plant.

• “pointal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Lapoint, platino-