a. Bot. Also stameniferous. [f. L. stāmin- STAMEN: see -FEROUS.] Having or bearing stamens, applied to a flower having stamens but no pistils; also applied to a nectary having stamens growing on it.
1761. Stiles, in Phil. Trans., LV. 264. If the flowers of these plants be hermaphroditic, the staminiferous part doubtless falls off as soon as the impregnation is over.
1785. Martyn, Rousseau’s Bot., ix. (1794), 95. I beg leave to coin two words, and to call those which have only the stamens staminiferous.
1796. Withering, Brit. Plants (ed. 3), I. 371. The section of a stameniferous flower cut through perpendicularly.
1829. Loudon, Encycl. Plants, 300. Nect[ary] 8-valved, staminiferous.
1889. Hardwicke’s Sci. Gossip, XXV. 130/2. The number of bees on stameniferous and pistiliferous plants.
