Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The basal segment of the maxilla of an insect or certain other arthropods.
- noun Botany A stalklike support or structure; a stipe.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Also, the stalk of the halter of a dipterous insect.
- noun In botany, same as
stipe . - noun In zoology, a stalk or stem, as an eye-stalk or a footstalk; a stipe.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The second joint of a maxilla of an insect or a crustacean.
- noun An eyestalk.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
vertical beam of across used forcrucifixion - noun The
basal segment of themaxilla of aninsect or acrustacean
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 burgundy.
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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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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 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 white.
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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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