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What is a stigma?

What is a stigma? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A mark of infamy or disgrace.
  2. A scar or birthmark.
  3. (plural) A mark on the body corresponding to one of the wounds of the Crucifixion on Jesus' body.
  4. (botany) The sticky part of a flower that receives pollen during pollination.
  5. A ligature of the Greek letters sigma and tau, (Ϛ/ϛ).
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Economic realities have helped to remove the old stigma associated with renting.
If marriage confers social status and respectability, adultery confers a stigma.
The organisers feel that the match could be a beginning for making a political statement on the disease and the related stigma.
For example, petals may wilt and abscise more rapidly after pollen deposition on the stigma or pollen tube growth through the style.
It appears fully satisfied with the idea that renaming the Outreach Fund will eliminate the stigma of race and gender preferences.
When the gynoecium did not abort, F1 flowers were protogynous with the stigma maturing prior to the anthers.

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