Definition of staminate in English:
staminate
adjective ˈstamɪnətˈstaməˌnāt
Botany (of a plant or flower) having stamens but no pistils.
Compare with pistillate
Example sentencesExamples
- In a hermaphroditic plant, flowers are first staminate, then pistillate, and the sexual stages do not overlap within the flower.
- Males produce only staminate flowers with stamens and no vestigial pistils.
- If nutritional deficiencies lead to increased pistil abortion and formation of staminate flowers, the nutritional deficit might also affect pollen production or pollen quality.
- A cup-shaped staminate perianth with dorsal, fleshy, crestate appendages is present only in Endolepis dioica.
- Characters that define this group include staminate flowers in bisexual glomerules, fruiting bracteoles dorsally compressed, and fruiting bracteoles connate with apical lobes free.