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Definition of Staminodes
1. staminode [n] - See also: staminode
Lexicographical Neighbors of Staminodes
Literary usage of Staminodes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Paxton's Flower Garden by John Lindley, Sir Joseph Paxton (1853)
"For the convenience of description the perfect stamen and accompanying abortions
may be called the outer stamen and staminodes, while those of the second ..."
2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"A. Lie. green or glaucous beneath, glabrous cr pubescent with simple hairs. B.
Under side of Its. and branchlets pubescent: fls. without staminodes. ..."
3. Paxton's Flower Garden by John Lindley, Joseph Paxton, Thomas Baines (1884)
"1 shows the theoretical state of the flower, with the three outer stamens complete,
and three inner staminodes. The outer stamens are here in the condition ..."
4. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1864)
"These facts seem to indicate that the pairs of stamens here have not an indifferent
relation to the staminodes between which they are placed. ..."
5. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1864)
"These t'ucts seem to indicate that the pairs of stamens here have not an indifferent
relation to the staminodes between which they are placed. ..."
6. Forest flora of British Burma by Sulpice Kurz (1877)
"filaments, the outer series consisting of 10-15 ligulate staminodes, the median
of 10 fertile stamens, and the innermost of 5 very short subulate staminodes ..."
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