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a symbol of disgrace or infamy; "And the Lord set a mark upon Cain"--Genesis

the apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil

an external tracheal aperture in a terrestrial arthropod

a symbol of disgrace or infamy; "And the Lord set a mark upon Cain"--Genesis

the apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil

an external tracheal aperture in a terrestrial arthropod

A mark made with a burning iron; a brand.

Any mark of infamy or disgrace; sign of moral blemish; stain or reproach caused by dishonorable conduct; reproachful characterization.

That part of a pistil which has no epidermis, and is fitted to receive the pollen. It is usually the terminal portion, and is commonly somewhat glutinous or viscid. See Illust. of Stamen and of Flower.

A small spot, mark, scar, or a minute hole; -- applied especially to a spot on the outer surface of a Graafian follicle, and to spots of intercellular substance in scaly epithelium, or to minute holes in such spots.

A red speck upon the skin, produced either by the extravasation of blood, as in the bloody sweat characteristic of certain varieties of religious ecstasy, or by capillary congestion, as in the case of drunkards.

One of the external openings of the tracheae of insects, myriapods, and other arthropods; a spiracle.

One of the apertures of the pulmonary sacs of arachnids. See Illust. of Scorpion.

One of the apertures of the gill of an ascidian, and of Amphioxus.

A point so connected by any law whatever with another point, called an index, that as the index moves in any manner in a plane the first point or stigma moves in a determinate way in the same plane.

Marks believed to have been supernaturally impressed upon the bodies of certain persons in imitation of the wounds on the crucified body of Christ. See def. 5, above.

Stigmata, a mark of disgrace or dishonor; a mark of taint, defect, blemish, etc.; a red speck on the skin; the upper part of the pistil of a flower, on which the pollen falls.

Stigmatic.

Stigmatic.

1. In botany, the part of the pistil of a flower, sessile on the ovary or at the extremity of the style, usually moistened with a viscid fluid, which receives the pollen. 2. In anatomy: (a) the interval between the endothelial cells in the wall of a capillary or lymph-channel; (b) the point of rupture of a Graafian follicle on the surface of the ovary. 3. In pathology: (a) any spot or blemish on the skin; (b) a bleeding spot on the skin of an hysterical person; (c) see stigma of degeneration. 4. In protozoology, the eye-spot of an infusorian.

Stigmatic.

A mark of infamy, or token of disgrace.

That part of a pistil which receives the pollen.

A mark; spot; scar.

Small scarlet circumscribed spot on skin.

A brand: a mark of infamy: (bot.) the top of a pistil:-pl. STIGMAS or STIGMATA.

A mark of infamy; top of the pistil of a flower.

A mark made with a burning lron; a brand; any mark of infamy; the top of a pistil. See Stigmata.

Cicatricula.

A spot, dot, or impression upon the skin.

Any space between the cells of the endothelium of a capillary.

A readily stainable area in epithelium at the points of union of groups of cells.

That part of the pistil of a flower which receives the pollen.

A punctiform spot or mark on the skin (see mark and nevus).

A red spot on the skin with an elevated efflorescence at its center; an umbo.

A characteristic.

In botany, that part of the pistil of a flower which lacks the epidermis and receives the pollen.

Any mark or distinguishing feature, especially of disease or defect of the nervous system.

n. [Greek] A mark with a burning iron; a brand;- any mark of infamy ;-a stain or blot on reputation ;-in pathology, a small red spot or speck on the skin ;-in botany, that vascular part of the pistil which receives the pollen.