Of plants: designating individuals of dioecious species whose flowers bear stamens but lack functional pistils. Later also: designating such a flower.

Botany. Consisting of, bearing, or pertaining to a stamen or stamens. Also of a flower: = stamineal, adj.

Having or bearing stamens, applied to a flower having stamens but no pistils; also applied to a nectary having stamens growing on it.

= staminose, adj.

Having stamens.& (In recent dictionaries.)

Furnished with or producing stamens. Of certain flowers: Having stamens but no pistils.

Botany. Pertaining to or consisting of stamens.

(See quot. 1856.)

= staminiferous, adj.

Of the nature of or resembling a stamen.

Applied to a flower ‘when the stamens form a marked feature of the flower’ (B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms 1900). = stamineal, adj.