Definition of stigma

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Stigma (v. t.) A small spot, mark, scar, or a minute hole; -- applied especially to a spot on the outer surface of a Graafian follicle, and to spots of intercellular substance in scaly epithelium, or to minute holes in such spots..

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Stigmatization :: Stigmatization (n.) The act of stigmatizing.
Monogynous :: Monogynous (a.) Of or pertaining to Monogynia; having only one style or stigma.
Style :: Style (v. t.) The elongated part of a pistil between the ovary and the stigma. See Illust. of Stamen, and of Pistil..
Speck :: Speck (n.) A small etheostomoid fish (Ulocentra stigmaea) common in the Eastern United States.
Stigma :: Stigma (v. t.) One of the apertures of the pulmonary sacs of arachnids. See Illust. of Scorpion.
Penicillate :: Penicillate (a.) Having the form of a pencil; furnished with a pencil of fine hairs; ending in a tuft of hairs like a camel's-hair brush, as the stigmas of some grasses..
Slur :: Slur (n.) A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo..
Stigmatic :: Stigmatic (n.) A person who is marked or deformed by nature.
Stigmata :: Stigmas (pl. ) of Stigm.
Stigmata :: Stigmaria (n.) The fossil root stem of a coal plant of the genus Sigillaria.
Fecundate :: Fecundate (v. t.) To render fruitful or prolific; to impregnate; as, in flowers the pollen fecundates the ovum through the stigma..
Stigma :: Stigma (v. t.) A red speck upon the skin, produced either by the extravasation of blood, as in the bloody sweat characteristic of certain varieties of religious ecstasy, or by capillary congestion, as in the case of drunkards..
Emmetropia :: Emmetropia (n.) That refractive condition of the eye in which the rays of light are all brought accurately and without undue effort to a focus upon the retina; -- opposed to hypermetropia, myopia, an astigmatism..
Monogynia :: Monogynia (n. pl.) A Linnaean order of plants, including those which have only one style or stigma..
Stigmatical :: Stigmatical (a.) Marked with a stigma, or with something reproachful to character..
Affix :: Affix (v. t.) To attach, unite, or connect with; as, names affixed to ideas, or ideas affixed to things; to affix a stigma to a person; to affix ridicule or blame to any one..
Stigmatically :: Stigmatical (a.) Of or pertaining to a stigma or stigmata.
Stigmatization :: Stigmatist (n.) One believed to be supernaturally impressed with the marks of Christ's wounds. See Stigma, 8..
Stomach :: Stoma (n.) A stigma. See Stigma, n., 6 (a) & (b)..
Stigma :: Stigma (v. t.) A mark made with a burning iron; a brand.
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