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Of or pertaining to stamens. examples
(rare) Pertaining to or promoting stamina or endurance. quotations
The supplies […] consisting chiefly of large quantities of provisions, vegetables, staminal foods, and pemmicans, will be sold […] on Monday.
1896 November 2/3, Daily News 3 (quoted in the New English Dictionary)
(obsolete) Of or pertaining to the stamina or basic structure or constitution of a thing. quotations
The absurdity […] of magnifying its accidental casual connexion with patronage, into something staminal and essential to its growth and perfection.
1798, J. Barry, Let. Dilettanti Soc., page 32
I know myself to be free from these staminal defects.
1805, Southey, in Robberds' Mem. W. Taylor II, page 77
an exposition of his staminal ideas of this subject
1845, J. Martineau, Misc., published 1852, page 92