Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of the small, paired, often leaflike appendages at the base of a leafstalk in many flowering plants.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany: One of a pair of lateral appendages found at the base of the petiole of many leaves.
- noun In the Characeæ, one of certain unicellular tubes, of greater or less length, on the inner and outer sides of the socalled leaf.
- noun Same as
paraphyllum . - noun In ornithology, a newly sprouted feather; a pinfeather. Also
stipula .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) An appendage at the base of petioles or leaves, usually somewhat resembling a small leaf in texture and appearance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany Basal appendage of a typical
leaf of a flowering plant, usually appearing paired beside thepetiole although sometimes absent or highly modified.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small leafy outgrowth at the base of a leaf or its stalk; usually occurring in pairs and soon shed
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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L’article 222 du Code pénal marocain stipule que tout individu connu pour son appartenance à l’Islam qui rompt ostensiblement le jeûne dans un lieu public pendant le Ramadan est passible de un à six mois d’emprisonnement et d’une amende.
Global Voices in English » Morocco: Activists Break Fast in Public, Receive Punishment 2009
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But the Southern knights constantly wore these lateral dragon's wings; and if I can find their special name, it may perhaps be substituted with advantage for 'stipule'; but I have not wit enough by me just now to invent a term.
Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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Yet she insistently wanted to drop this one directly into nutrient soil, watch the epicotyl lengthen, smile proudly at the upward thrusting plumule, then fuss over stipule and first foliage.
First Contact Ed Higgins 2011
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M'en fout j'ai mon chequier avec le talon, la lettre en double que j'avais envoyé avec le cheque et un mail qui stipule que j'ai envoyé un cheque alors la!!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006
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Non j'crois qu'il faut juste un CV, le papier qui stipule que tu es handicapé et les dossiers medicaux qui disent que tu es bien malade!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006
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She saw a bee standing on the stipule of a pansy, its pollen sacs dusted gold.
The Hunger Whitley Strieber 1981
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She saw a bee standing on the stipule of a pansy, its pollen sacs dusted gold.
The Hunger Whitley Strieber 1981
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She saw a bee standing on the stipule of a pansy, its pollen sacs dusted gold.
The Hunger Whitley Strieber 1981
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She saw a bee standing on the stipule of a pansy, its pollen sacs dusted gold.
The Hunger Whitley Strieber 1981
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The stipules may also be fused together in different ways; their edges sometimes cohere between the leaf and the stem, and thus form a solitary intra-axillary stipule.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
sera commented on the word stipule
"A small leafy outgrowth at the base of a leaf or its stalk; usually occurring in pairs and soon shed"
August 13, 2007
sera commented on the word stipule
stipule
August 13, 2007