STAMEN
\stˈe͡ɪmɛn], \stˈeɪmɛn], \s_t_ˈeɪ_m_ɛ_n]\
Definitions of STAMEN
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A thread; especially, a warp thread.
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The male organ of flowers for secreting and furnishing the pollen or fecundating dust. It consists of the anther and filament.
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That organ of a flower which furnishes the pollen, or male fertilizing element, and which consists of the filament and the anther.
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Staminal, staminate.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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One of the male organs of a flower which produce the pollen:-pl. STAMINA, the principal strength of anything: the firm part of a body which supports the whole.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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n. [Latin, Greek] A thread ; especially, a warp thread; the male organ of flowers for secreting and furnishing the pollen or fecundating dust;-pl. The fixed, firm part of a body which supports it or gives it its strength and solidity; -whatever constitutes the principal strength or support of any thing.
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