staminate

[ stam-uh-nit, -neyt ]

adjective

, Botany.

1. having a stamen or stamens.
2. having stamens but no pistils.

staminate

/ -ˌneɪt; ˈstæmɪnɪt /

adjective

1. (of plants) having stamens, esp having stamens but no carpels; male

staminate

/ stā′mə-nĭt /

1. Having stamens but no carpels. Male flowers are staminate.

Other Words From

• multi·stami·nate adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of staminate¹

First recorded in 1835–45; stamin- + -ate ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of staminate¹

C19: from Latin stāminātus consisting of threads. See stamen , -ate ¹

Example Sentences

Trees, with alternate pinnate leaves, no stipules, and monœcious flowers, the staminate in aments.

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Flowers diœcious; the staminate flowers destitute of pistils, with 15–20 anthers; the fertile with a short column of filaments but usually no anthers.

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Low and stiff, but rather slender, 1° high or less; leaves very narrow, mostly shorter than the culm; spikes 3–5, somewhat scattered, brown, globular or oblong, compactly many-flowered, the terminal one long-contracted below with the staminate flowers; perigynium very short-ovate, thick, the beak rough, a little longer than the very obtuse scale.—Salt marshes, Maine, and northward, rare.

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Flowers monœcious; the staminate and pistillate both in 1-flowered spikelets in the same panicle.

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Sterile involucres flattish or top-shaped, of 7–12 scales united into a cup, containing 5–20 funnel-form staminate flowers, with slender chaff intermixed, or none.

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