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单词 stamen
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stamenn.

Brit. /ˈsteɪmən/, /ˈsteɪmɛn/, U.S. /ˈsteɪmᵻn/
Forms: Plural stamens; also (now rarely) stamina /ˈsteɪmɪnə/.
Etymology: < Latin stāmen, neuter (plural stāmina ) ‘the warp in the upright loom of the ancients’ (Lewis & Short), a thread of the warp, a thread or fibre in general, also (Pliny) applied to the stamens of the lily; corresponding formally to Greek στήμων masculine warp, στῆμα neuter, some part of a plant (Hesychius), Gothic stōma weak masculine, Sanskrit sthāman station, place, also strength < Indogermanic *st(h)āmon- , -en- , < *st(h)ā- to stand v. Compare Italian stame, French étamine (1690 in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter; representing Latin plural stamina), Spanish estambre, Portuguese estame.
1. The warp of a textile fabric. Also transferred. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > woven > thread(s) > warp
stamen1650
chain1721
pile warp1748
nap-warp1846
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine App. 190 As in a Web, the stamen, or Warp, is fast fixed, through which the woofe is cast, or woven.
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. §1. i. 6 Those whitest Fibers which..make the stamen or warp of every Muscule.
2.
a. The thread spun by the Fates at a person's birth, on the length of which the duration of his life was suppose to depend. Hence, in popular physiology, the measure of vital impulse or capacity which it was supposed that each person possessed at birth, and on which the length of his life, unless cut short by violence or disease, was supposed to depend.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > course or span of life
life-dayOE
year-daysOE
timeOE
dayOE
lifeOE
life's timeOE
livelihoodOE
yearOE
lifetimea1300
life-whilea1300
for (also to) term of (a person's) lifea1325
coursec1384
livingc1390
voyage1390
agea1398
life's dayc1425
thread1447
racea1450
living daysc1450
natural life1461
lifeness1534
twist1568
leasec1595
span1599
clew1615
marcha1625
peregrination1653
clue1684
stamen1701
life term1739
innings1772
lifelong1814
pass-through1876
inning1885
natural1891
life cycle1915
puff1967
1701 C. Wooley Two Years Jrnl. N.-Y. 13 A person seemingly of a weakly Stamen and a valetudinary Constitution.
1709 Tatler No. 15. ⁋1 All, who enter into human life, have a certain date or Stamen given to their being, which they only who die of age may be said to have arrived at.
a1745 J. Richardson Note on Milton's Lycidas 75 Of the three fatal sisters the first prepar'd the flax upon the distaff, the stamen of human life.
1753 L. M. tr. J. Du Bosc Accomplish'd Woman I. 246 Bad example hath not less influence upon education than a bad stamen upon the constitution.
b. The supposed germinal principle or impulse in which the future characteristics of any nascent existence are implicit.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > source or principle of life > vital principle > [noun]
souleOE
lifeOE
spiritusOE
bloodOE
ghostOE
life and soulOE
quickship?c1225
quicknessc1230
breatha1300
spirita1325
spark1382
naturec1385
sparkle1388
livelinessa1398
rational soula1398
spiracle1398
animal spirit?a1425
vital spiritc1450
soul of the world1525
candle1535
fire1576
three souls1587
vitality?1592
candlelight1596
substance1605
vivacity1611
animality1615
vividity1616
animals1628
life spring1649
archeus1651
vital1670
spirituosity1677
springs of life1681
microcosmetor1684
vital force1702
vital spark (also flame)1704
stamen1718
vis vitae1752
prana1785
Purusha1785
jiva1807
vital force1822
heartbeat1828
world-soul1828
world-spirit1828
life energy1838
life force1848
ghost soul1869
will to live1871
biogen1882
ki1893
mauri1897
élan vital1907
orgone1942
1718 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentyt Relig. Philosopher I. xvi. 306 All the Great Naturalists..have been convinced..that the Beginning of all Creatures consist in a Stamen.
1725 J. Reynolds View of Death vi. 16 Some suppose, that the soul takes away with it, the animal spirits, as the stamen, or ground of the vehicle, it is to assume.
c. The fundamental or essential element of a thing. Obsolete. Cf. stamina n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > essence or intrinsic nature > [noun]
pitheOE
i-cundeeOE
roota1325
substancec1330
juicec1380
marrowa1382
formc1385
acta1398
quidditya1398
substantial forma1398
inward1398
savourc1400
inwardc1450
allaya1456
essencya1475
being1521
bottom1531
spirit?1534
summary1548
ecceity1549
core1556
flower1568
formality1570
sum and substance1572
alloy1594
soul1598
inwardness1605
quid1606
fibre1607
selfness1611
whatness1611
essentialityc1616
propera1626
the whole shot1628
substantiala1631
esse1642
entity1643
virtuality1646
ingeny1647
quoddity1647
intimacy1648
ens1649
inbeing1661
essence1667
interiority1701
intrinsic1716
stamen1758
character1761
quidditas1782
hyparxis1792
rasa1800
bone1829
what1861
isness1865
inscape1868
as-suchness1909
Wesen1959
1758 W. Borlase Nat. Hist. Cornwall 61 Earth is the general food and stamen of all bodies.
1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 305 Philosophers..looked upon water as the elemental matter, or stamen of all things.
3.
a. Botany. The male or fertilizing organ of a flowering plant, consisting of two parts, the anther, which is a double-celled sac containing the pollen, and the filament, a slender footstalk supporting the anther.Although the Latin stamen was applied by Pliny to the stamens of the lily, the technical use of the word in botany apparently began with Spigelius (Adriaan van den Spieghel, died 1625), who defines stamina as ‘partes oblongæ tenues veluti capillamenta..quæ stylum (partem similiter oblongam sed paulo crassiorem)..ambiunt’ (Isagoge in Rem Herbariam, ed. 1633, i. vi. p. 37).
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > parts of > stamen or pistil > stamen(s)
thrum1578
chive1664
stamen1668
attire1672
semet1672
capillament1726
filament1756
phalanx1771
androphore1821
staminodium1821
andrœcium1839
staminode1857
phalange1872
α. singular
1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. vi. 170 [Parts of the flower.] Stamen, tuft.
1764 J. Berkenhout Clavis Anglica Linguæ Bot. (at cited word) Each Stamen consists of two distinct parts, viz. the Filamentum, and the Anthera.
1845 J. Lindley School Bot. (1858) i. 15 The Stamen is one of the parts which stand next the corolla in the inside.
β. plural stamina.1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. iv. §4 81 [Herbs] Stamineous; whose flower doth consist of threddy filaments or Stamina.1683 J. Ray Corr. (1848) 131 A thrum of small flowers, which are vulgarly mistaken for stamina.1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. i. iv. 10 The Stamina are the Male Part of the Flower.1858 Brightwell Life Linnæus 25 A close examination of the stamina and pistils.1879 J. Grant in Cassell's Techn. Educator IV. 95/1 He showed that the stamina, or dust-threads, were the male..parts of the plants.γ. plural stamens.1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. i. 25 Between the pistil and the corol [of a Lily] you find six other bodies..called the Stamens.1807 J. E. Smith Introd. Physiol. & Systematical Bot. 470 Class 21. Monoecia. Stamens and Pistils in separate flowers, but both growing on the same individual plant.1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 791 The stamens of Berberis..lose their irritability in vacuo.
b. In combinations.
ΚΠ
1821 S. F. Gray Nat. Arrangem. Brit. Plants I. 159 Gynophore... Stamen-bearing,..supporting the stamens also.
1829 T. Castle Introd. Systematical & Physiol. Bot. 170 The barren or stamen-bearing flowers.
1877 T. H. Huxley & H. N. Martin Course Elem. Biol. (ed. 4) 84 The union of the filaments for three-fourths of their length to form the stamen-tube.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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