staminate

American  

[stam-uh-nit, -neyt] / ˈstæm ə nɪt, -ˌneɪt /

adjective

Botany.

1. having a stamen or stamens.

2. having stamens but no pistils.

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staminate British  

/ -ˌneɪt, ˈstæmɪnɪt /

adjective

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

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staminate Scientific  

/ stā′mə-nĭt /

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

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Other Word Forms

• multistaminate
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of staminate

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

Example Sentences

Staminate: Numerous, in upper part of spike; calyx 4 parts; no corolla; stamens 8–16, small, free.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers

Staminate Flowers.—Five to twenty in racemes; their stamens two and a half, with short connate filaments and somewhat horizontal anthers.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth

Staminate spikes 2 or more, long stalked; the pistillate 2–several, usually all peduncled, long and heavy, loose-flowered, erect or nodding; perigynium large, thick in texture, strongly nerved, mostly smooth, usually conspicuously beaked.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Staminate and pistillate flowers greenish, on different parts of the same stalk.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers

Staminate flowers in long, drooping catkins, provided with three or more stamens and occasionally with an irregular-lobed perianth adnate to the bractlet and a rudimentary ovary.

From The Pecan and its Culture by Hume, H. Harold (Hardrada Harold)