a. Bot. [f. L. stigmat- STIGMA + -(I)FEROUS.] Bearing a stigma.
1831. Macgillivray, trans. Richard’s Elem. Bot., 471. The style … bears at its summit a variable number of stigmatiferous divisions.
1870. Hooker, Stud. Flora, 295. Verbena,… style slender, 2-lobed, one lobe only stigmatiferous.
