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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A minute stipule at the base of a leaflet.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In botany, a secondary stipule situated at the base of the leaflets of a compound leaf.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) The stipule of a leaflet.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun botany A stipule associated with a leaflet or pinna rather than a complete leaf.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[New Latin stipella, diminutive of stipula, stipule; see stipule.]

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