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Definition of Staminate
1. Adjective. Capable of fertilizing female organs.
Category relationships: Botany, Phytology
Similar to: Male
Derivative terms: Anther
Definition of Staminate
1. a. Furnished with stamens; producing stamens.
2. v. t. To indue with stamina.
Definition of Staminate
1. Adjective. (botany) Having stamens, but (typically) no pistils. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Staminate
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Staminate
1. Producing or consisting of stamens, flowers with stamens but not pistils. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Staminate
Literary usage of Staminate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary, and Physiological: With by Lincoln Phelps (1846)
"staminate flowers: corolla none, or scarcely apparent; anthers growing around
... Pistillate flowers: calyx and corolla like the staminate; pistil 3-cleft; ..."
2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"H. staminate calyx with 5 sepals connate, at least at base: Ivs. usually palmately
veined: st. ... staminate calyx of 1 or 2 climbing or trailing 43. Mabea. ..."
3. American Agriculturist (1847)
"69, a sterile staminate blossom. The reader will now be enabled to understand
from the above cuts exactly what I am talking about. Fig. ..."
4. Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary and Physiological: With by Lincoln Phelps (1836)
"staminate and pistillate flowers mixed. staminate flowers : calyx 0; corolla-glume
... Pistillate flowers: calyx and corolla as in the staminate; germs many ..."
5. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"Perfect flower solitary, without empty bractlets or staminate flowers either ...
Perfect flower with one or two staminate flowers or empty bractlets below ..."
6. Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary, and Physiological: With by Lincoln Phelps (1849)
"staminate flowers with the anthers ovate, sessile, alternating with the germs.
... staminate flowers : perianth of 1 leaf; stamens ou the base of the germ. ..."
7. Familiar Lectures on Botany: Explaining the Structure, Classification, and by Lincoln Phelps (1854)
"staminate flowers: unent cylindric ; calyx a torn scale ; corolla turbi- nate.
oblique, entire, supporting 8 to 30 stamens. Pistillate flowers : ament ..."
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