Stigma

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(COUNTABLE, UNCOUNTABLE) (1. A mark or token of infamy, disgrace, or reproach: "Party affiliation has never been more casual... The stigmata of decay are everywhere" 2. A small mark; a scar or birthmark. 3. Medicine. a. A mark or spot on the skin that bleeds as a symptom of hysteria. b. A mark or characteristic indicative of a history of a disease or abnormality. 4. stigmata. Marks or sores corresponding to and resembling the crucifixion wounds of Jesus, sometimes occurring during religious ecstasy or hysteria. 5. Biology. A small mark, spot, or pore, such as the respiratory spiracle of an insect or an eye spot in certain algae. 6. Botany. The receptive apex of the pistil of a flower, on which pollen is deposited at pollination. 7. Archaic. A mark burned into the skin of a criminal or slave; a brand) ស្លាកស្នាមទុយ៌ស, ដែកដុត, ស្នាម (ដំបៅ, អ៊ុត), ស្នាមរឺសញ្ញា ទុយ៌ស
Example: There is less stigma attached to illegitimacy now than there used to be.

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A small spot, mark, scar, or a minute hole; -- applied especially to a spot on the outer surface of a Graafian follicle, and to spots of intercellular substance in scaly epithelium, or to minute holes in such spots.

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A red speck upon the skin, produced either by the extravasation of blood, as in the bloody sweat characteristic of certain varieties of religious ecstasy, or by capillary congestion, as in the case of drunkards.

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A mark made with a burning iron; a brand.

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A point so connected by any law whatever with another point, called an index, that as the index moves in any manner in a plane the first point or stigma moves in a determinate way in the same plane.

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(TRANSITIVE) Marks believed to have been supernaturally impressed upon the bodies of certain persons in imitation of the wounds on the crucified body of Christ.

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(TRANSITIVE) Any mark of infamy or disgrace; sign of moral blemish; stain or reproach caused by dishonorable conduct; reproachful characterization.

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(TRANSITIVE) One of the external openings of the tracheae of insects, myriapods, and other arthropods; a spiracle.

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(TRANSITIVE) One of the apertures of the pulmonary sacs of arachnids.

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(TRANSITIVE) One of the apertures of the gill of an ascidian, and of Amphioxus.

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(TRANSITIVE) That part of a pistil which has no epidermis, and is fitted to receive the pollen. It is usually the terminal portion, and is commonly somewhat glutinous or viscid.

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brand, mark, scar, stain, stigmata, trace, vestige