stamen

Everyday

A stamen is the male part of a flower that makes pollen; it has a thin stalk (the filament) with a top part (the anther) covered in pollen. tree →

In the lessons

In science lessons about plants, the stamen is one of the parts of a flower, along with the petals, sepals and the carpel (pistil), which is the female part. Bees and wind carry pollen from the stamens of one flower to the carpel of another; this is pollination, which leads to seeds.

Examples

• The stamens are covered in yellow pollen. tree →
• Label the stamen and the petals on your flower diagram. tree →
• A bee brushed against the stamens. tree →
• Each stamen has an anther and a filament. tree →
• Pollen moves from the stamen to the stigma. tree →
• Lilies have big stamens that can stain your clothes. tree →
• We counted six stamens in the flower. tree →
• The stamen is the male part of the flower. tree →

Note

Countable; plural «stamens» (the old plural «stamina» is very rare and confusing because «stamina» also means energy to keep going). Trap: do not mix up stamen (male) with stigma, style and ovary, which are parts of the female carpel.