Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. 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.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A steep ascent.
- n. In botany, a stalk or support of some sort, the word being variously employed. In flowering plants, the stalk formed by the receptacle or some part of it, or by a carpel. To distinguish further this kind of stipe, various other terms are employed, as thecaphore, gynophore, gonophore, anthophore, gynobase, and carpophore. See cut under
Arachis . - n. In anatomy, a stem: applied to two branches, anterior and posterior, of the zygal or paroccipital fissure of the brain.
- n. In zoology, a stipes.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The stalk or petiole of a frond, as of a fern.
- n. The stalk of a pistil.
- n. The trunk of a tree.
- n. The stem of a fungus or mushroom.
WordNet 3.0
- n. supporting stalk or stem-like structure especially of a pistil or fern frond or supporting a mushroom cap
Etymologies
- Latin stipes a stock, post, branch: compare French stipe. (Wiktionary)
- French, from Latin stīpes, post. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The trunk, sometimes called a stipe, is the stem of the palm.”
“The cap of a basidiomycete, an expanded structure at the top of the stipe that bears the hymenium (gills, etc.) on its undersurface.”
“I am a magistrate and welcome the opportunity to sit through a Court 1″ list sometime and explain, case by case how we (and there are three of us, I am not a stipe/DJ) decide what to do.”
“If you want the US to surrender/withdraw however your political stipe demands that you phrase it leave the kind general out of that decision.”
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“Marks and Spencer have a nice double stipe shirt in aqua/grey, which would look good with a plain tie.”
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“Is stipe contentus, et hi asses integros sibi multiplicari jubent.”
“Do you have anything to say about candy stipe or watermelon or are they about radishes. you guys blog about what you think you know but u have no idea”
“But what is this dark green and black stipe in the middle of the map?”
“Nevertheless, it is veriform, that because Mammona doth not supergurgitate anything in my loculs, that I am somewhat rare and lent to supererogate the elemosynes to those egents that hostially queritate their stipe.”
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“· Agaricus species have a pileus which is smooth, free gills, stipe with a ring (left when the cap breaks away), and brown spores.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘stipe’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Mycology
basidiomycete, initiation, fungus, shiitake, inoculum, substrate, fruit body, mycelium, hyphal growth, oyster, spawn run, polypore and 207 more...
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phrontistery-s
from phrontistery.info
syzygy, systyle, systematology, systatic, syssitia, syrtic, systaltic, syrt, syrinx, syphilomania, syphilology, syntrierarch and 1593 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Mycolexical
Scientific words & "folk names" that apply to mushrooms, fungi and mycology That are euphonious, humorous or antiquated.
Later some translated foreign words too.basidia, anastomosis, woronin bodies, clitocybe, ascomycetous, septa, deliquescent, mycophobic, autodeliquescence, floccose, stipe, saprophyte and 38 more...
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Words of Standing
steed, stool, estancia, stage, stance, staunch, stanch, stanchion, stanza, stative, stator, stay and 180 more...
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mycophilia
<3 of mushrooms
chantarelle, omphalotus olearius, mycophile, shitake, morel, destroying angel, gills, cap, hymenium, stipe, spore print, polypore and 2 more...
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Choppers
Words that have been cut down from their original glory, ie. apocopes, but are still 'understandable' in the chopped form. eg. doc for doctor. Most of them are horribilisms, I know :-( Let's keep t...
doc, rep, van, bus, fridge, pub, flu, hon, santa, diff, blog, exam and 49 more...
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ramages
names of trees and bushes and other asundry items that name branching
juniper, pinon, tamarind, ponderosa pine, douglas fir, locust, sycamore, cottonwood, mountain mahogany, blue spruce, cedar, aspen and 76 more...
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Prosie: How Pantagruel met with a Lim...
Upon a certain day, I know not when, Pantagruel walking after supper with some of his fellow-students without that gate of the city through which we enter on the road to Paris, encountered with a y...
alme, inclyte, vocitate, transfretate, dilucul, crepuscul, deambulate, urb, despumate, latial, verbocination, verisimilary and 61 more...
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boggled
legal according to the dicker we use
shaw, taw, nowt, tew, frit, scow, trow, dow, roan, stipe, shew, woad and 31 more...
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five-letter words that start with "st"
start, stare, stair, stain, strap, strop, strip, stink, stank, stuck, stack, stock and 47 more...
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words megan taught me
because she said so
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