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A terminal combining form: Having a stamen or stamens; staminate; as, monandrous, with one stamen; polyandrous, with many stamens.

Having the number of floral organs unequal, as four petals and six stamens.

Having unequal stamens; having stamens different in number from the petals.

That part of the stamen containing the pollen, or fertilizing dust, which, when mature, is emitted for the impregnation of the ovary. -- An"ther*al, a.

Certain books of the New Testament which were for a time not universally received, but which are now considered canonical. These are the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistles of James and Jude, the second Epistle of Peter, the second and third Epistles of John, and the Revelation. The undisputed books are called the Hom…

Standing before a petal, as a stamen.

having a long mane on the breast and fore legs. It is, perhaps, the chamois of the Old Testament.

e isle of Patmos, near the close of the first century, forming the last book of the New Testament.

Relating to an issue of fulfillment. In this way a passage in the Old Testament may have, or rather comprise, an apotelesmatic sense, i. e., one of after or final accomplishment. M. Stuart.

Mentally dull; stupid. Shak. Barren flower, a flower which has only stamens without a pistil, or which as neither stamens nor pistils. -- Barren Grounds (Geog.), a vast tract in British America northward of the forest regions. -- Barren Ground bear (Zoöl.), a peculiar bear, inhabiting the Barren Grounds, now believed…

To give or leave by will; to give by testament; -- said especially of personal property. My heritage, which my dead father did bequeath to me. Shak.

writings be in the original language, or translated; the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments; -- sometimes in a restricted sense, the Old Testament; as, King James's Bible; Douay Bible; Luther's Bible. Also, the book which is made up of writings similarly accepted by the Jews; as, a rabbinical Bible.…

Of both sexes; hermaphrodite; as a flower with stamens and pistil, or an animal having ovaries and testes.

lly recognized by theologians of all shades of opinion, that in the language of the New Testament the same officer in the church is called indifferently "bishop" ( J. B. Lightfoot.

Having the petals and stamens adnate to the calyx; -- applied to a subclass of dicotyledonous plants in the system of the French botanist Candolle.

The Song of Songs or Song of Solomon, one of the books of the Old Testament.

Having the petals held together by stamens, which grow to their bases, as in the mallow.

The absence or suppression of the essential organs (stamens and pistil) in a flower.

A filament of a stamen. [Obs.]

The two canonical books of the Old Testament in which immediately follow 2 Kings.