Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having no stipules.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, having no stipules.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having no stipules.
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- adjective botany Not bearing
stipules .
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Examples
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At this camp I obtained seeds of a dwarf spreading tree, with alternate exstipulate primate leaves, and axillary racemes of a round flattened fruit, similar in size and shape to the small blue fig cultivated in gardens, of a dark purple colour, and possessing a flavour similar to an Orleans plum when hardly ripe, with a hard rough stone inside.
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They may be lasting and not be shed (a beans); or be shed as the leaf expands, leaving a stipule scar on the twig (an exstipulate leaf).
Wikibooks - Recent changes [en] 196.46.245.35 2010
bilby commented on the word exstipulate
"Leaves are exstipulate alternate simple palmately lobed or palmately compound."
- 'Cucurbitaceae', wikipedia.org.
October 8, 2008