1. The apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil 
2. A symbol of disgrace or infamy
   - mark, brand, stain 
3. An external tracheal aperture in a terrestrial arthropod 
4. A skin lesion that is a diagnostic sign of some disease

Derived forms: stigmas

See also: stigmatic, stigmatize

Type of: blemish, defect, mar, reproductive structure, spiracle, symbol

Part of: style

Encyclopedia: Stigma

• unpresentable
• unpresidential
• unpressed
• unpretending
• unpretentious
• unpretentiously
• unpretentiousness
• unpreventable
• unpriestly
• unprincipled
• unprintable
• open-end wrench
• open-ended
• open-eyed
• open-face sandwich
• open-faced
• open-heart surgery
• open-hearth
• open-hearth furnace
• open-hearth process
• open-minded
• open-mindedly
• open-mindedness
• open-plan
• open-source