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    STAMEN

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

    Irregular inflected form: stamina  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The male reproductive organ of a flowerplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("stamen" is a kind of...):

    reproductive structure (the parts of a plant involved in its reproduction)

    Meronyms (parts of "stamen"):

    anther (the part of the stamen that contains pollen; usually borne on a stalk)

    gynostegium (the crown of the stamen in plants of the genus Asclepias)

    Holonyms ("stamen" is a part of...):

    bloom; blossom; flower (reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts)

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