Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, bearing or having stipels.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having stipels.
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- adjective botany Having
stipels .
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Leaves pinnately compound, alternate; petiole swollen at the base, covering bud of the next season; often with spines in the place of stipules; leaflets 7-21, opposite or scattered, 3/4-1-1/4 inches long, about half as wide, light green; outline ovate or oval-oblong; apex round or obtuse, tipped with a minute point; base truncate, rounded, obtuse or acutish; distinctly short-stalked; stipellate at first.
Handbook of the Trees of New England Lorin Low Dame 1860
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