stamen

IPA: stˈeɪmʌn

(botany) In flowering plants, the structure in a flower that produces pollen, typically consisting of an anther and a filament.

Examples of "stamen" in Sentences

Almost everybody knows that the function of the stamen is the secretion of pollen.
Picture this: a light blue flower with black speckles, droopy petals, creamy stamen.
Consider also media (from medium), criteria (from criterion), graffiti (from graffito), and stamina (from stamen).
Her ivory neck and face rises like a stamen from her red satin dress, perhaps evoking the Florentine fleur-de-lis.
The first row consists of one posterior stamen, which is generally perfect, and two abortive stamens incorporated with the labellum.
The small of her back, where the downy hair stands upright like wheat in the summer light made me think: pistil and stamen, as if back in biology class.
[11] The stamen is the male part of the plant and is made up of the anther (the pollen-bearing part of a stamen) and the filament which supports the anther.
The plant has a slow spreading, rhizomatic root system that supports several vertically furrowed blooms, each stamen independent yet fundamentally connected.
It is equally correct to call a stamen a contracted petal, and a petal an expanded stamen, for no one of the organs is the type of the others, but all equally are varieties of a single abstract plant-appendage.
To assert that a stamen is a metamorphosed leaf means, if it means anything, that in the long sweep of time the leaf has by slow or sudden gradations changed its character through successive generations, until the offspring, so to speak, of a true leaf has become a stamen.