Monday, May 11, 2009

What word means both a mark of disgrace and part of a flower?

stigma...


-a religious marking on the skin.





In botany:


-a part of the female organ of a flower, essentially the terminal part of a pistil.


-a spiracle or other small spot.





In zoology:


-One of the external openings of the tracheae of insects, myriapods, and other arthropods; a spiracle.


-One of the apertures of the pulmonary sacs of arachnids.


-One of the apertures of the gill of an ascidian, and of Amphioxus.


-Spots on the wings of Lepidoptera.





In geometry:


-a point so connected by any law whatever with another point, called an index, that as the index moves in any manner in a plane the first point or stigma moves in a determinate way in the same plane.

What word means both a mark of disgrace and part of a flower?
Stigma.
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