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