STAMEN (stamina)

Pronunciation (US):

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Irregular inflected form: stamina   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does stamen mean? 

• STAMEN (noun)
  The noun STAMEN has 1 sense:

1. the male reproductive organ of a flower

  Familiarity information: STAMEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STAMEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The male reproductive organ of a flower

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("stamen" is a kind of...):

reproductive structure (the parts of a plant involved in its reproduction)

Meronyms (parts of "stamen"):

anther (the part of the stamen that contains pollen; usually borne on a stalk)

gynostegium (the crown of the stamen in plants of the genus Asclepias)

Holonyms ("stamen" is a part of...):

bloom; blossom; flower (reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts)

 Context examples 

"Oh, is he? Well, that won't last long, I fancy. March never had any stamina," was the cheerful reply.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The pollen bearing portion of a stamen.

(Anther, Food and Drug Administration)

Mars helps you compete well and gives you the stamina and drive you will need to get to where you want to be.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The Norwegian Elkhound is a hardy, medium-sized Spitz-type dog, sturdy and squarely built with great stamina.

(Norwegian Elkhound, NCI Thesaurus)

They are used by bodybuilders and athletes to increase muscle mass, strength, and stamina.

(Anabolic steroid, NCI Thesaurus)

Others demonstrate phenomenal stamina as they relentlessly run down quarry.

(Hound Breed, NCI Thesaurus)

Stamens are many, arranged in bundles of threes, and the flowers are profuse, arranged in branched cymes which bloom from June until September.

(Hypericum perforatum, NCI Thesaurus)

The reproductive structure of a tree or other plant, consisting of at least one pistil or stamen, and often including petals and sepals.

(Flower, Food and Drug Administration)

The mechanism consists of coordinated movements, repeated for hours, of the anthers (the end of the stamen, the part of the flower in which pollen is produced) over the stigma (the flower’s female reproductive system).

(Some plants are capable of ‘rubbing’ themselves for hours in order to achieve self fertilization, University of Granada)