▪ I. stomate, n. Bot.
(ˈstəʊmət)
[app. formed as an Eng. sing. for the pl. stomata: see stoma. Cf. F. stomate, and stigmate.]
= stoma 2.
| 1835 Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) I. 137 In most plants the cuticle has..openings..called Stomates, Stomata, or Stomatia. Ibid. 141 Another singular kind of stomate. 1877 Huxley & Martin Elem. Biol. 73 Stomates are absent in the epidermis of the root. |
▪ II. stomate, a. rare—0.
[app. f. stoma + -ate2; but prob. a fiction of mod. Dicts. due to mistaking the n. (see prec.) for an adj.]
‘Having stomata’ (Ogilvie Suppl. 1855: hence in later Dicts.).