Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In ornithology, same as stipule.

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

  • noun (Bot.) A stipule.
  • noun (Zoöl.) A newly sprouted feather.

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

  • noun botany A stipule.
  • noun zoology A newly sprouted feather.

Etymologies

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Latin, a stalk, stem.

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  • before stipulate - elementary featherhood

    August 25, 2009