Bot. [app. formed as an Eng. sing. for the pl. stomata: see STOMA. Cf. F. stomate, and STIGMATE.] = STOMA 2.
1835. Lindley, Introd. Bot. (1848), I. 137. In most plants the cuticle has … openings … called Stomates, Stomata, or Stomatia. Ibid., 141. Another singular kind of stomate.
1877. Huxley & Martin, Elem. Biol., 73. Stomates are absent in the epidermis of the root.
