The progressive era took 20 years to correct abuses of the Gilded Age. The New Deal struggled for a decade to overcome the Great Depression, and the expansion of economic justice lasted through the 1960s.
Stigma (botany) The stigma (plural: stigmata) is the receptive tip of a carpel, or of several fused carpels, in the gynoecium of a flower.
Definition of stigma for English Language Learners. : 1  a set of negative and often unfair beliefs that a society or group of people have about something. 2  botany : the top part in the center of a flower which receives the pollen.