stamen
part of speech
noun (a stamen, stamens)
meaning for a pupil
A stamen is the male part of a flower that makes pollen; it has a thin stalk (the filament) with a top part (the anther) covered in pollen. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science lessons about plants, the stamen is one of the parts of a flower, along with the petals, sepals and the carpel (pistil), which is the female part. Bees and wind carry pollen from the stamens of one flower to the carpel of another; this is pollination, which leads to seeds.
examples
- The stamens are covered in yellow pollen. tree →
- Label the stamen and the petals on your flower diagram. tree →
- A bee brushed against the stamens. tree →
- Each stamen has an anther and a filament. tree →
- Pollen moves from the stamen to the stigma. tree →
- Lilies have big stamens that can stain your clothes. tree →
- We counted six stamens in the flower. tree →
- The stamen is the male part of the flower. tree →
note
Countable; plural «stamens» (the old plural «stamina» is very rare and confusing because «stamina» also means energy to keep going). Trap: do not mix up stamen (male) with stigma, style and ovary, which are parts of the female carpel.
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «stamen» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.