a. [f. L. stāmine-us, consisting of threads, f. stāmin-: see STAMEN and -EOUS.]

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  † 1.  (See quot.) Obs.

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1661.  Blount, Glossogr. (ed. 2), Stamineous (stamineus) pertaining to hemp or flax, or that hath shreds in it.

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  2.  Bot. Consisting of, bearing, or pertaining to a stamen or stamens. Also of a flower: = STAMINEAL a.

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1668.  Wilkins, Real Char., II. IV. § 4. 87. [Herbs] Stamineous; whose flower doth consist of threddy filaments or Stamina.

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1704.  J. Harris, Lex. Techn., I. The Botanists call that a Stamineous Flower, which is so far imperfect, as to want … Petala, and consist only of the Stylus and Stamina.

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1750.  G. Hughes, Barbados, 118. They discover innumerable small pale yellow stamineous flowers.

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1760.  J. Lee, Introd. Bot., I. xii. (1765), 30. Stamineous Nectaria, such as attend the stamina.

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1841.  Penny Cycl., XXI. 174/1. Stamineous crown 5-leaved, with the leaflets compressed laterally.

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