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 and divides as sta-mi-nate under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.