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Definition of Staminode
1. n. A staminodium.
Definition of Staminode
1. Noun. (botany) An abortive stamen, or any organ modified from an abortive stamen; a staminodium. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Staminode
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Medical Definition of Staminode
1. A sterile stamen, often rudimentary. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Staminode
Literary usage of Staminode
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Horticultural Society of London (1900)
"... together predominate in the upper sepal, lower sepal, and staminode. ...
together predominate in the staminode, P. insigne alone preponderates in the ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"... infolded portion with raised dots ; staminode crescent shape. Autumn. ...
with reddish brown warts; staminode reniform. April-July and even later. ..."
3. Manual of British Botany, Containing the Flowering Plants and Ferns by Charles Cardale Babington (1874)
"Caps. ovoid, acute.—In moist places. West of Cornwall. Tralee, Kerry. Jersey. P.
VII. EI ** Cal. of 5 deep acute segments. Cor. yellow; MO staminode. 15. ..."
4. The Flora of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1885)
"... cymes ascending shortly peduncled in long contracted panicles, pedicels short,
sepals rounded margin broadly scarious, staminode orbicular or reniform. ..."
5. Evolution by Atrophy in Biology and Sociology by Jean Demoor, Jean Massart, Emile Vandervelde (1899)
"To establish this it would be necessary to show in the case we have just mentioned,
that the stamen did not become transformed directly into a staminode, ..."
6. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Francis Wall Oliver, Mary Frances (Ewart) Macdonald, Marian (Balfour) Busk (1895)
"The stamen is wedged in a sterile, petal-like staminode inserted immediately
below it; this staminode has its free end fashioned into the shape of a spoon. ..."
7. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"The stamen is wedged in a sterile, petal-like staminode inserted immediately
below it; this staminode has its free end fashioned into the shape of a spoon. ..."
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