Stigmas Synonyms and Antonyms

A symbol of disgrace or infamy; --Genesis
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. stains
  2. taints
  3. spots
  4. shames
  5. marks
  6. brands
  7. disgraces
  8. reproaches
  9. tarnishes
  10. scars
  11. blots
  12. blemishes
  13. clouds
Antonyms:
  1. prides
  2. credits
A mark on the skin indicative of a disease, as typhus
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. petechiae
An association of disgrace or public disapproval with something, such as an action or condition:
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. stains

Words Related to Stigmas

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Stigmas Sentence Examples

  • The order is divided into two main groups based on the number of the stamens and stigmas.

  • Below the anther the surface of the column in front is hollowed out into a greenish depression covered with viscid fluid - this is the two united stigmas.

  • The first Diandreae, has two or rarely three fertile stamens and three functional stigmas.

  • In Cypripedium two stamens are present, one on each side of the column instead of one only at the top, as in the group Monandreae, to which belong the remaining genera in which also only two stigmas are fertile.

  • A small group of Australian genera closely approach the order Juncaceae in having small crowded flowers with a scarious or membranous perianth; they include Xanthorrhoea (grass-tree or blackboy) and Kingia, arborescent plants with an erect woody stem crowned with a tuft of long stiff narrow leaves, from the centre of which rises a tall dense flower spike or a number of stalked flower-heads; this group has been included in Juncaceae, from which it is doubtfully distinguished only by the absence of the long twisted stigmas which characterize the true rushes.

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