Associations to the word «Sterigma»

Wiktionary

STERIGMA, noun. (biology) A slim projecting part of the basidium of some species of fungi that carries the basidiospore.
STERIGMA, noun. (biology) A woody projection from the tip of the leaf base in certain conifers (Picea and Tsuga).
STERIGMA, noun. (biology) Part of the genitalia of moths.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope