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Definition of Stigmas
1. stigma [n] - See also: stigma
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stigmas
Literary usage of Stigmas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"... stamens yellow; ovary narrowed at collar; stigmas very small. ... densely bearded
at base; ovary pyramidal; stigmas small, tinged with red. ..."
2. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"St \ le filiform, exserted : stigmas 2, linear-elavate, papillose-pubescent.
Ovary 2-celled : ovules erect from the base, anatropous. ..."
3. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Fertile flowers without perianth or spathe, the oblong ovary terminated by a
short style and 2 to 4 narrowly subulate stigmas. Fruit a very thin membranous ..."
4. The Florist and Pomologist: A Pictorial Monthly Magazine of Flowers, Fruits by Robert Hogg (1883)
"Falls sulphur white, beard primrose, the claw on each pide netted crimson and
yellow; standards and petaloid stigmas primrose. MR. ..."
5. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1901)
"Juice milky; stigmas sessile and radiate upon the summit of the ovary Juice
yellow; stigmas capitate upon the short slender style . 2. ..."
6. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"Two types of stigmas are also present: in some specimens the stigmas as a whole
are broad and more or less flattened—spread out, so to speak—projecting at ..."
7. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"Accordingly the honey-sucking insects do not go to the centre of the flower but
to the circumference, and this explains why the stigmas and anthers, ..."
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