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Meanings of stamen in English

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Usage of stamen in English
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Now there remains only the one serious point-viz.the separation of the one stamen.
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Tulips coyly invite flies to more closely examine their seductive stamen.
The Guardian
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First a stamen on one side opens its anthers and exposes its pollen.
The Naturalist in Nicaragua
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The work of the stamen then is to produce pollen to fertilize the pistils.
The First Book of Farming
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Their botanical name comes from the Greek pente meaning five and stemon meaning stamen.
The Irish Times
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Each stamen supported a tiny figure carved out of ivory, holding a musical instrument.
Mizora: A Prophecy / A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of th...
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One part is the pistil, the other the stamen.
The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.
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The B class of MADS-box floral homeotic genes specifies petal and stamen identity in angiosperms.
Pubmed
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Conclusions: We show two different developmental routes leading to stamen to carpel conversions by late re-specification.
Pubmed
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Such transformations take place relatively late in development, indicating strong developmental plasticity of most stamen tissues.
Pubmed
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Now no plant can bear seeds unless the pollen of the stamen falls on the stigma.
Agriculture for Beginners / Revised Edition
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But I overlooked many details, as the appendage to the single stamen, and several other points.
Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
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No-itwas a flower, a close-upimage of the stamen and stigma of a flame tulip.
Hemlock Grove
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Now the pollen of this one occasional short stamen, I think, very likely would produce dwarf plants.
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Meter, rhythm, lilt and style are stamen, pistil and stalk swaying in the warm breeze of springtime.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8
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F. Muller's observations showed that a totally different interpretation of the two sizes of stamen is possible.
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