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Symbols of shame
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stigmas
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stigma \Stig"ma\, n.; pl. E. Stigmas , L. Stigmata . [L., a mark, a brand, from Gr. ?, ?, the prick or mark of a pointed instrument, a spot, mark, from ? to prick, to brand. See Stick , v. t.] A mark made with a burning iron; a brand. Any mark of infamy ...
Wiktionary
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n. (plural of stigma English)
Usage examples of stigmas.
Every hybridizer knows how unfavourable exposure to wet is to the fertilisation of a flower, yet what a multitude of flowers have their anthers and stigmas fully exposed to the weather!
Having found a female tree exactly sixty yards from a male tree, I put the stigmas of twenty flowers, taken from different branches, under the microscope, and on all, without exception, there were pollen-grains, and on some a profusion of pollen.
Any one may readily convince himself of the efficiency of insect-agency by examining the flowers of the more sterile kinds of hybrid rhododendrons, which produce no pollen, for he will find on their stigmas plenty of pollen brought from other flowers.