Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A supporting stalk or stemlike structure, especially the stalk of a pistil, the petiole of a fern frond, or the stalk that supports the cap of a mushroom.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A steep ascent.
- noun In botany, a stalk or support of some sort, the word being variously employed.
- noun In anatomy, a stem: applied to two branches, anterior and posterior, of the zygal or paroccipital fissure of the brain.
- noun In zoology, a stipes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The stalk or petiole of a frond, as of a fern.
- noun The stalk of a pistil.
- noun The trunk of a tree.
- noun The stem of a fungus or mushroom.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
stem of amushroom ,kelp , etc. - noun The
trunk of atree .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun supporting stalk or stem-like structure especially of a pistil or fern frond or supporting a mushroom cap
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The trunk, sometimes called a stipe, is the stem of the palm.
Chapter 3 1977
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The cap of a basidiomycete, an expanded structure at the top of the stipe that bears the hymenium (gills, etc.) on its undersurface.
Medallion Vulcan | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009
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I am a magistrate and welcome the opportunity to sit through a Court 1″ list sometime and explain, case by case how we (and there are three of us, I am not a stipe/DJ) decide what to do.
Oooops! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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If you want the US to surrender/withdraw however your political stipe demands that you phrase it leave the kind general out of that decision.
Watching the Iraq Hearings With Petraeus and Crocker - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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If you want the US to surrender/withdraw however your political stipe demands that you phrase it leave the kind general out of that decision.
Watching the Iraq Hearings With Petraeus and Crocker - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Marks and Spencer have a nice double stipe shirt in aqua/grey, which would look good with a plain tie.
What shirt to wear with an olive green suit? « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2006
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Do you have anything to say about candy stipe or watermelon or are they about radishes. you guys blog about what you think you know but u have no idea
Sunshine Salad (aka Yellow Beet Salad) TheCooker 2007
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Is stipe contentus, et hi asses integros sibi multiplicari jubent.
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But what is this dark green and black stipe in the middle of the map?
Archive 2006-11-01 2006
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Nevertheless, it is veriform, that because Mammona doth not supergurgitate anything in my loculs, that I am somewhat rare and lent to supererogate the elemosynes to those egents that hostially queritate their stipe.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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