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Stigmatical   Listen
adjective
Stigmatical, Stigmatic  adj.  
1.
Marked with a stigma, or with something reproachful to character.
2.
Impressing with infamy or reproach. (R.)
3.
(Bot., Anat., etc) Of or pertaining to a stigma or stigmata.
Stigmatic geometry, or Stigmatics, that science in which the correspondence of index and stigma (see Stigma, 7) is made use of to establish geometrical proportions.





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"Stigmatical" Quotes from Famous Books



... great advantage to the hive-bee to have a slightly longer or differently constructed proboscis. On the other hand, I have found by experiment that the fertility of clover depends on bees visiting and moving parts of the corolla, so as to push the pollen on to the stigmatic surface. Hence, again, if humble-bees were to become rare in any country, it might be a great advantage to the red clover to have a shorter or more deeply divided tube to its corolla, so that the hive-bee could visit its flowers. Thus I can understand how a flower ...
— On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection • Charles Darwin


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