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French
Etymology
From stigmate + -ique.
Pronunciation
Adjective
stigmatique (plural stigmatiques)
- (botany) stigmatic (related to a plant's stigma)
Le rôle des papilles stigmatiques est de retenir le pollen.- The role of the stigmatic papillae is to trap pollen.
- (optics) stigmatic
- Un instrument d'optique (...) devra soit satisfaire à la condition des sinus, on dit qu'il est alors non seulement stigmatique mais encore aplanétique, soit à la condition de Herschell. (Prat, Optique, 1962)
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