Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Supported on or having a stipe.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany and zoology, having or supported by a stipe or stipes; elevated on a stipe.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Supported by a stipe; elevated on a stipe, as the fronds of most ferns, or the pod of certain cruciferous plants.
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- adjective Possessing a
stalk .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The fourth _glume_ is white, coriaceous, smooth and shining, oblong, acute, shortly and broadly stipitate, with the margins folded inwards exposing only a third of the palea; _palea_ is similar to the glume in texture and marking.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The fourth glume is much smaller than the third, stipitate, bisexual or female, oblong or ovate-oblong, acute, flat, thinly coriaceous, nerveless and paleate; the palea is hyaline, as broad as the glume, acute and nerveless.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Plants soft when young, becoming firm, some woody or corky, stipitate, shelving, or spread over the wood, _Polyporus_.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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Spikelets one flowered; inferior paleae awned ovarium stipitate.
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This plant appears to be generically distinct from Erigeron, particularly in its stipitate pappus.
Expedition into Central Australia Charles Sturt 1832
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a common short branchlet, loosely imbricate, distichous and shortly stipitate and the stipe with a purple thickening; pedicel is short, 1/24 to 1/12 inch with sometimes long deciduous hairs and the tip somewhat thickened.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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