adjective
- having stamens but no pistils; bearing only male reproductive organs
Usage: botanical
Examples
- The staminate flowers produce pollen but cannot develop fruit.
- Oak trees have separate staminate and pistillate flowers on the same plant.
- Botanists identified the staminate catkins hanging from the birch branches.
- The staminate blooms appeared before the leaves emerged in spring.
- Wind carries pollen from staminate flowers to pistillate ones.
- The gardener learned to distinguish staminate from pistillate squash blossoms.