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Stamineous


STAMINEOUS, adjective [Latin]

1. Consisting of stamens or filaments. stamineous flowers have no corol; they want the colored leaves called petals, and consist only of the style and stamina. Linne calls them apetalous; others imperfect or incomplete.

2. Pertaining to the stamen, or attached to it; as a stamineous nectary.