Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. The basal segment of the maxilla of an insect or a crustacean.
- n. Botany A stalklike support or structure; a stipe.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. The vertical beam of a cross used for crucifixion
- n. The basal segment of the maxilla of an insect or a crustacean
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The second joint of a maxilla of an insect or a crustacean.
- n. An eyestalk.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In botany, same as stipe.
- n. In zoology, a stalk or stem, as an eye-stalk or a footstalk; a stipe.
- n. Also, the stalk of the halter of a dipterous insect.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Examples
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The striped edition celebrates the 5th anniversary of Senseo: the stipes are the bar code and the different colours represent the different editions.
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Obama and his parade of loonies (Biden) and fools (Pelosi & Reid) are showing their true radical stipes.
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The makers, Adidas have their logo in the top centre of the chest and their three stipes running down each sleeve, both in white.
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The makers, Adidas have their logo in the top centre of the chest and their three stipes running down each sleeve, both in burgundy.
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She has a mentor, one Cap Drake, an erudite man but a lie-teller and when Mabel asks about the meaning of the stipes on the American flag, Cap hems and haws and pretends to know but doesn't.
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When the stipes on the rhizome begins to show a blistered look after about three months, they are beginning to show bud formation in time for their next growing season.
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Cut the withered stipes leaf stalks as close to the rhizome as possible and remove broken or old roots.
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Bigbenr, You've shown the "colour" of your stipes.
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I see marble support collumns, wall tiles of precious gem stones, and lanes divided with stipes of $100 bills ... the brilliant colors dancing off the hand rubbed laquer black gloss of my gas guzzling limo.
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And you are so right about the "picking and choosing" being a problem for believers of all stipes.
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