Other forms: stamens
The stamen is the part of a flower that carries the pollen. Count the stamens, the stamens dusted with pollen, a ring of stamens.
It is the male part, a stalk with an anther at the top, and the carpel opposite it is the female. The Latin means a thread, from the upright threads on an old loom.
1nounstamenThe part of a flower that carries the pollen.
“Lily stamens can stain your clothes, so florists often snip them off.”
stamen is a part.
Latin stamen means a thread, from the warp threads of an upright loom.
Proto-Indo-European
*steh₂-
Ancient Greek
στη̃μα
New Latin
stāmen
English, today
stamen
From New Latin stāmen, from Ancient Greek στη̃μα. [https://www.etymonline.com/word/stamen]
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA