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słupek — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • stanchion noun A vertical pole, post, or support.

Senses

słupek is used for these senses in English:

  • bollard A similar post preventing vehicle access to a pedestrian area, to delineate traffic lanes, or used for security purposes.
  • carpel (botany) A constituent part of a flower pistil: the female reproductive organs in a flower. A carpel is composed of an ovary, a style, and a stigma, although some flowers have carpels without a distinct style. In origin, carpels are leaves (megasporophylls) that have evolved to enclose the ovules. A pistil may be composed of a single carpel or of several carpels fused together.
  • goalpost (sports) One of the two vertical side poles of a goal.
  • pistil (botany) A discrete organ in the center of a flower capable of receiving pollen and producing a fruit, it is divided into an ovary, style and stigma. [from 18th c.]
  • stanchion A vertical pole, post, or support.

stanchion — full definition

  1. noun A vertical pole, post, or support.
  2. noun A framework of such posts, used to secure or confine cattle.

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