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The male part of a flower — the part that makes . It has two pieces: a thin stalk called the filament, and a small head at the top called the anther, which is where the sits. Those are the yellow tips that leave dust on your nose when you lean into a lily. The female part is the , with the sticky stigma at its top; pollination is getting from stamen to stigma, carried by bees, wind, birds or a person with a brush. Most flowers have several stamens, sometimes dozens, arranged in a ring around the middle. A flower can have stamens and a both, which is normal, so 'male part' means the part with the male job, not a male flower. This is a biology word. It appears in textbooks, in exam questions, and among and florists, and almost nowhere else. Note the plural: 'stamens' is the everyday one, though botanical writing sometimes uses the Latin 'stamina'.
雄蕊。上面的花藥(anther)產花粉,下面細細那根是花絲(filament);對面的雌蕊是 pistil。國高中生物課本用語。
組成From New Latin stamen, from Ancient Greek stema. The Latin word stamen meant a thread — specifically the warp thread standing upright on an old loom — and the flower part got the name because it looks like a fine thread standing up.
同家族的字
- staminathe Latin plural of stamen; the threads of life the Fates were said to spin, hence lasting power
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
stamennoun/ˈsteɪ.mən/
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biologybotanynatural-sciencesIn flowering plants, a male reproductive structure in a flower that produces pollen, typically consisting of an anther and a filament.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。