Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, of, belonging to, or standing in the place of stipules; growing on stipules, or close to them: as, stipular glands.
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- adjective botany Of, relating to, or constituting a
stipule .
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Examples
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Acacia nilotica is easy to recognize by its bright yellow flowers in round heads, straight stipular spines often slightly deflexed, and dark indehiscent pods compressed over the seeds.
Chapter 10 1996
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A. tortilis is protected by two types of thorns, long white stipular spines and small curved hooks, a formidable protection against animals.
Chapter 2 1994
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Myrmecophily is an obligatory, symbiotic association between ants and plants, the best known example being the habitation of swollen, stipular Acacia thorns by ants of the genus Pseudomyrmex.
Chapter 4 1994
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Acacia nilotica is easy to recognize by its bright yellow flowers in round heads, straight stipular spines often slightly deflexed, and dark indehiscent pods compressed over the seeds.
Chapter 13 1990
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Both varieties have paired, straight, strong, pale-colored, stipular spines up to 8 cm long which in var. fistula are often fused at the base into the inflated pseudo-galL The leaves arc bipinnate - usually with 48 pairs of pinnae, each of which bears 10-20 pairs of close-set, obscurely veined leaflets.
Chapter 16 1990
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