different between stamen vs gynantherous

English

Etymology

From Latin stamen.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?ste?.m?n/
• Rhymes: -e?m?n

Noun

stamen (plural stamens or stamina)

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

Derived terms

• stameniferous
• stamenless

Translations

See also

• androecium

Anagrams

• Manets, Masten, aments, ant'ems, antems, mantes, mean'st, menats, namest

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *st?men, from Proto-Indo-European *stéh?mn?, from *steh?- (“stand”), whence also st? and sist?. Cognate with Sanskrit ??????? (sth??man, “place; strength”), Gothic ???????????????????? (st?ma), Ancient Greek ????? (stêma), used by Hesychius for a part of a plant. Equivalent to st? (“I stand”) +? -men (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sta?.men/, [?s?t?ä?m?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sta.men/, [?st???m?n]

Noun

st?men n (genitive st?minis); third declension

1. warp (of a loom)
2. thread hanging from a distaff

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Derived terms

• st?mineus

Descendants

• Catalan: estam
• English: stamen, stamina
• French: étaim, étamine
• Italian: stame
• Portuguese: estame, estâmina (via English)
• Spanish: estambre

References

• stamen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• stamen in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• stamen in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• stamen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• stamen in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From the noun Stamm (“stem, trunk”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ta?m?n/

Verb

stamen (third-person singular present staamt, past participle gestaamt, auxiliary verb hunn)

1. (intransitive) to descend, to derive

Conjugation

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek

Adjective

gynantherous (not comparable)

1. (botany) Pertaining to an abnormal condition of the flower, in which the stamens are converted into pistils.

References

gynantherous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.