单词 | staminate |
释义 | staminateadj. Botany. Furnished with or producing stamens. Of certain flowers: Having stamens but no pistils. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [adjective] > having or relating to parts > of or having stamens or pistils > of or having stamens or male malea1398 stamineous1668 staminiferous1766 staminous1786 stamened1840 staminate1845 staminal1854 stamineal1856 staminigerous1866 staminoid1869 staminose- 1845–50 A. H. Lincoln Familiar Lect. Bot. (new ed.) Vocab. Staminate, having stamens without pistils. 1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. ii. ii. 413 Monœcia, with staminate, pistillate, and hermaphrodite flowers on the same plant. 1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows (1886) 141 There are staminate plants in literature, that make no fine show of fruit. 1883 Science 1 432/2 Staminate and pistillate flowers maturing at the same time. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2021). † staminatev. Obsolete. rare. transitive. To imbue with ‘stamina’ or vital force. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > vital principle > impart vital principle [verb (transitive)] inspirea1382 inform1594 actuate1597 spirit1606 vitalize1678 staminate1720 1720 Bibliotheca Biblica I. 258 Persons..form'd and staminated, by the immediate hand of God, with peculiar Principles of Vitality. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.1845v.1720 |
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