Stipe Definition

stīp
noun
A usually short, thick stem, as.
Webster's New World
A supporting stalk or stemlike structure, especially the stalk of a pistil, the petiole of a fern frond, or the stalk that supports the cap of a mushroom.
American Heritage

Stipes.

Webster's New World

The trunk of a tree.

Wiktionary

The caudicle within the pollinarium of an orchid flower.

Wiktionary

Origin of Stipe

  • Latin stipes a stock, post, branch: compare French stipe.

    From Wiktionary

  • French from Latin stīpes post

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Stipe Sentence Examples

  • In Laminariaceae there is a distinction of stipe and blade.

  • While the laminated portion of the thallus is being gradually worn off in our latitudes during the autumnal storms, a vigorous new growth appears at the junction of the stipe and the blade, as the result of which a new piece is added to the stipe and the lamina entirely renovated.

  • It has almost no stipe, producing pinnae from very close to the ground.

  • The frond is held on a very long stipe giving the plant quite an open airy appearance.

  • This is the case in the Fucaceae, and in a very marked degree in the Laminariaceae in question, where the assimilative frond is borne at the end of an extremely long supporting and conducting stipe.

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SSTSTI

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EPEIPE

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