staminate

1. 1.

   capable of fertilizing female organs

   Synonymsantheral

   Similarmale

   botany

Questions about staminate

What does staminate mean?

staminate means "capable of fertilizing female organs".

How many syllables are in staminate?

staminate has 3 syllables: sta-mi-nate. The stress falls on "sta".

What is another word for staminate?

Close synonyms include antheral. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is staminate a common word?

staminate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.