Crossword clues for stigmatic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stigmatic \Stig*mat"ic\, n.
A notorious profligate or criminal who has been branded; one who bears the marks of infamy or punishment. [R.]
--Bullokar.A person who is marked or deformed by nature.
--Shak.
Stigmatic \Stig*mat"ic\, Stigmatical \Stig*mat"ic*al\, a. [See Stigma.]
Marked with a stigma, or with something reproachful to character.
Impressing with infamy or reproach. [R.]
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(Bot., Anat., etc) Of or pertaining to a stigma or stigmata.
Stigmatic geometry, or Stigmatics, that science in which the correspondence of index and stigma (see Stigma, 7) is made use of to establish geometrical proportions.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context botany anatomy English) Having a stigma or stigmata. 2 Marked with a stigma, or with something reproachful to character. 3 Impressing with infamy or reproach. n. 1 One who has been branded as punishment. 2 One who has been marked or deformed by nature. 3 One who displays stigmata, the five wounds of Christ.
WordNet
adj. pertaining to or resembling of having stigmata
pertaining to a lens or lens system free of astigmatism (able to form point images) [syn: anastigmatic]
not astigmatic [syn: anastigmatic] [ant: astigmatic]
n. a person whose body is marked by religious stigmata (such as marks resembling the wounds of the crucified Christ) [syn: stigmatist]
Usage examples of "stigmatic".
On the other hand, I have found by experiment that the fertility of clover greatly depends on bees visiting and moving parts of the corolla, so as to push the pollen on to the stigmatic surface.
How strange that the pollen and stigmatic surface of the same flower, though placed so close together, as if for the very purpose of self-fertilisation, should in so many cases be mutually useless to each other!