Stigma

Quick meaning: Stigma is a noun meaning An indication of infamy or disgrace.

Meaning

An indication of infamy or disgrace.

More Meanings

1. A scar or birthmark.
2. (botany) The sticky part of a flower that receives pollen during pollination.
3. (medicine) A visible sign or characteristic of a disease.
4. (zoology) Synonym of pterostigma.
5. (typography) A ligature of the Greek letters sigma and tau: Ϛ / ϛ.

Example Sentences

But to have as an enforced dining companion a man who was probably a Papist, certainly a rake, and bore the stigma of cowardice, was anathema.

Now you see just how the stamen gets its lusty dust onto the stigma / And why this frenzied chlorophyllous orgy starts in spring is no enigma!

Black crowberry. Empetrum nigrum. Crowberry Family. Fruit. — The black drupe is berrylike, globular, and incloses six to nine seedlike nutlets with a seed in each. The calyx is at the base and the stigma is at the apex. The drupes are solitary in the leaf axils. They are juicy, acid, edible, and serve as food for the Arctic birds.

Word Forms

• stigmata
• stigmas
• stigmat
• stigmate
• stigme

Synonyms for stigma

Depending on context, synonyms include summit, pterostigma, mark, brand, stain.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mark, stain, brand, stigmatisation, stigmatization, discredit.

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