Dictionary Entry
stigma
stigma is a 6-letter English word with 14 senses as transitive verb and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A mark made with a burning iron; a brand. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
A mark made with a burning iron; a brand.
- 2transitive verb
Any mark of infamy or disgrace; sign of moral blemish; stain or reproach caused by dishonorable conduct; reproachful characterization.
- 3transitive verb
That part of a pistil which has no epidermis, and is fitted to receive the pollen. It is usually the terminal portion, and is commonly somewhat glutinous or viscid. See Illust. of Stamen and of Flower.
- 4transitive verb
A small spot, mark, scar, or a minute hole; -- applied especially to a spot on the outer surface of a Graafian follicle, and to spots of intercellular substance in scaly epithelium, or to minute holes in such spots.
- 5transitive verb
A red speck upon the skin, produced either by the extravasation of blood, as in the bloody sweat characteristic of certain varieties of religious ecstasy, or by capillary congestion, as in the case of drunkards.
- 6transitive verb
One of the external openings of the tracheae of insects, myriapods, and other arthropods; a spiracle.
- 7transitive verb
One of the apertures of the pulmonary sacs of arachnids. See Illust. of Scorpion.
- 8transitive verb
One of the apertures of the gill of an ascidian, and of Amphioxus.
- 9transitive verb
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.
- 10transitive verb
Marks believed to have been supernaturally impressed upon the bodies of certain persons in imitation of the wounds on the crucified body of Christ. See def. 5, above.
- 11noun
a skin lesion that is a diagnostic sign of some disease
- 12noun
an external tracheal aperture in a terrestrial arthropod
- 13noun
a symbol of disgrace or infamy--Genesis
"And the Lord set a mark upon Cain"
- 14noun
the apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil
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