stamen

This allowed them to identify a signal emitted by the maternal tissue that attracts pollen tubes by leading them to elongate along the stamen tissue and reach the site of fertilization.

From Science Daily ● May 21, 2024

When a bee rummages around for nectar in the flower’s center, it triggers the next stamen to come sweeping in, ready for a new bee, or the previous bee’s return.

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2019

Each stamen consists of a stalk called a filament with an anther at its tip.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2018

“We’re trying to make the environmental movement more fun and diverse – it has become very dry and boring,” Sprinkle, 62, tells me, pointing to a suggestively exuberant hibiscus stamen.

From The Guardian ● May 15, 2017

In her hair was a stamen from a flower.

From "Stuart Little" by E.B. White

Inside the egg, a surprise awaits: a bouquet of flowers made of white quartz wood anemones, each flower with gold wire stem and stamens.

From Barron's ● Nov. 27, 2025

Instead, the rodents brush against the scores of scarlet stamens, which carry the pollen that could then cling to the their fur coats until being transferred to another feijoa tree.

From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2022

Later in spring, bloom continues more demurely, when Magnolia wilsonii and M. sieboldii, a couple of Larson’s favorite species, produce fragrant, nodding white flowers with pink to crimson stamens.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 9, 2022

Later that day, her students would tear those silky petals from their stems, counting stamens and pistils to learn botany.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2021

The lecture on pistils and stamens turns into a big Fla-ha.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson

They’re in it for the long haul—there is a sense of orderliness, of anger and energy being spent judiciously to preserve stamina.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

His tireless travel schedule and quick wit testify to his stamina -- and he also credits his third wife Rosangela da Silva, 59, with keeping him young.

From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026

If negotiations were to resume, it’s unclear whether Trump and his coterie of negotiators have the stamina or the foreign service expertise to bring about an accord.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

This is four years, a tennis lifetime, returning to an individual sport which requires intense stamina and mental discipline.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

It’s time to admit that data has joined agenda, erotica, insignia, opera, stamina, and other technically plural Latin and Greek words that have become thoroughly Anglicized as singular nouns taking singular verbs.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner