Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A minute stipule at the base of a leaflet.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a secondary stipule situated at the base of the leaflets of a compound leaf.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The stipule of a leaflet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany A
stipule associated with aleaflet orpinna rather than a completeleaf .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin stipella, diminutive of stipula, stipule; see stipule.]
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Examples
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In the normal leaf of this plant there is between the bases of the pinnæ, a small reddish gland or stipel? attached to, or projecting from, the upper surface of the rachis.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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