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Stigma

Stigma, denotes loss of confidence by the employer amount to 'stigma', Kamal Kishore Lakshman v. Pan American World Airways, AIR 1987 SC 229: (1987) 1 SCC 146.Stigma, is something that detracts from the character or reputation of a person, a mark, sign etc., indicting that something is not considered normal or standard (Webster's New World Dictionary), Dipti Prakash Banerjee v. Satyendra Nath Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, (1999) 3 SCC 60.Stigma, is understood to be something that is detraction from the character or reputation of a person. It is blemish, imputation, mark or label indicating a deviation from a norm, mere description of background fact cannot be called as stigma. State of U.P. v. Ram Bachan Tripathi, AIR 2005 SC 3212.--in the absence of a statutory definition of the word 'stigma', its meaning as available in dictionaries. According to Webster's New World Dictionary it is something that detracts from the character or reputation of a person, a mark, sign, etc. in...


Bilamellate

Formed of two plates as the stigma of the Mimulus also having two elevated ridges as in the lip of certain flowers...


Capitate

Headlike in form also having the distal end enlarged and rounded as the stigmas of certain flowers...


Cross fertilize

To fertilize as the stigmas of a flower or plant with the pollen from another individual of the same species...


cross pollination

fertilization by transfer of pollen from the anthers of one flower to the stigma of another...


Entomophilous

Fertilized by the agency of insects said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by insects...


VerbarIndusium

A collection of hairs united so as to form a sort of cup and inclosing the stigma of a flower...


VerbarMonogynia

A Linnaeligan order of plants including those which have only one style or stigma...


Monogynous

Of or pertaining to Monogynia having only one style or stigma...


Penicillate

Having the form of a pencil furnished with a pencil of fine hairs ending in a tuft of hairs like a camels hair brush as the stigmas of some grasses...


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