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

1. transitive verb. A mark made with a burning iron; a brand.
2. transitive verb. Any mark of infamy or disgrace; sign of moral blemish; stain or reproach caused by dishonorable conduct; reproachful characterization.
3. transitive 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.
4. transitive 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.
5. transitive 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.
6. transitive verb. One of the external openings of the tracheae of insects, myriapods, and other arthropods; a spiracle.
7. transitive verb. One of the apertures of the pulmonary sacs of arachnids. See Illust. of Scorpion.
8. transitive verb. One of the apertures of the gill of an ascidian, and of Amphioxus.
9. transitive 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.
10. transitive 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.
11. noun. a skin lesion that is a diagnostic sign of some disease
12. noun. an external tracheal aperture in a terrestrial arthropod
13. noun. a symbol of disgrace or infamy--Genesis

    "And the Lord set a mark upon Cain"

    Synonyms: brand, mark, stain

14. noun. the apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil

Synonyms

brand, mark, stain

Common word forms

stigmas

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