Bot. [ad. L. stāminātus consisting of threads (mod.L. furnished with stamens), f. stāmin-, stāmen: see STAMEN and -ATE2.] Furnished with or producing stamens. Of certain flowers: Having stamens but no pistils.

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1845–50.  Mrs. Lincoln, Lect. Bot., Vocab., Staminate, having stamens without pistils.

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1861.  Bentley, Man. Bot., 413. Monœcia, with staminate, pistillate, and hermaphrodite flowers on the same plant.

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1870.  Lowell, Study Wind. (1886), 14. There are staminate plants in literature, that make no fine show of fruit.

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1883.  Science, I. 432/2. Staminate and pistillate flowers maturing at the same time.

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