Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In botany, a stamineal column, usually formed by a union of the filaments, as in the Malvaceæ and in many genera of Leguminosæ.
  • noun In zoology, the branch of a gonoblastidium of a hydrozoan which bears male gonophores; a generative bud or medusiform zooid in which the male elements only are developed, as distinguished from a gynophore or female gonophore. See gynophore, and cut under gonoblastidium.
  • noun A stalk supporting an andrœcium.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A support or column on which stamens are raised.
  • noun (Zoöl.) The part which in some Siphonophora bears the male gonophores.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun botany A support or column on which stamens are raised.
  • noun zoology The part which, in some Siphonophora, bears the male gonophores.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek, from words meaning "man" and "to bear".

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