Definition of stamen

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Stamen (n.) A thread; especially, a warp thread..

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Fuchsia :: Fuchsia (n.) A genus of flowering plants having elegant drooping flowers, with four sepals, four petals, eight stamens, and a single pistil. They are natives of Mexico and South America. Double-flowered varieties are now common in cultivation..
Oligandrous :: Oligandrous (a.) Having few stamens.
Androtomous :: Androtomous (a.) Having the filaments of the stamens divided into two parts.
Monoclinous :: Monoclinous (a.) Hermaphrodite, or having both stamens and pistils in every flower..
Dodecandria :: Dodecandria (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants including all that have any number of stamens between twelve and nineteen.
Filament :: Filament (n.) A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp. (Bot.), the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther..
Test :: Test (v. i.) To make a testament, or will..
Cryptogamia :: Cryptogamia (n.) The series or division of flowerless plants, or those never having true stamens and pistils, but propagated by spores of various kinds..
Dodecandrous :: Dodecandrous (a.) Of or pertaining to the Dodecandria; having twelve stamens, or from twelve to nineteen..
Phyllous :: Phyllous (a.) Homologous with a leaf; as, the sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils are phyllous organs..
Dioecia :: Dioecia (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants having the stamens and pistils on different plants.
Epistler :: Epistler (n.) A writer of epistles, or of an epistle of the New Testament..
Androphore :: Androphore (n.) A support or column on which stamens are raised.
Didynamia :: Didynamia (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants having four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length.
Decandrous :: Decandrous (a.) Belonging to the Decandria; having ten stamens.
Sterile :: Sterile (a.) Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for reproduction of offspring; not able to germinate or bear fruit; unfruitful; as, a sterile flower, which bears only stamens..
Triadelphous :: Triadelphous (a.) Having stamens joined by filaments into three bundles. See Illust. under Adelphous.
Lepal :: Lepal (n.) A sterile transformed stamen.
Stammel :: Staminodium (n.) An abortive stamen, or any organ modified from an abortive stamen..
Corolliflorous :: Corolliflorous (a.) Having the stamens borne on the petals, and the latter free from the calyx. Compare Calycifloral and Thalamifloral..
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