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

In the male cones, or staminate cones, the microsporocytes give rise to pollen grains by meiosis.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

In the male cones, or staminate cones, the microsporocytes give rise to microspores by meiosis.

From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013

Perigynium thin in texture, green, oblong or lanceolate or linear in general outline, beakless; spike one, staminate above, thin and slender; stigmas mostly three.—Small, slender and grass-like.—Sp.

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

Flowers monœcious; the fertile spikelets 1-flowered, usually intermixed with clusters of few-flowered staminate spikelets.

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

Heads many-flowered; the flowers all tubular, diœcious, i.e., the pistillate and staminate borne by different plants.

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