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Definition of Stipes
1. n. The second joint of a maxilla of an insect or a crustacean.
Definition of Stipes
1. Noun. The vertical beam of a cross used for crucifixion ¹
2. Noun. The basal segment of the maxilla of an insect or a crustacean ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stipes
1. a stipe [n STIPITES] - See also: stipe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stipes
Literary usage of Stipes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands by Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1913)
"stipes tuberculate, and clothed with long blackish-brown hairs C. Menziesii stipes
smooth ... stipes green, stout, with a ventral and two lateral furrows, ..."
2. Scottish Cryptogamic Flora, Or, Coloured Figures and Descriptions of by Robert Kaye Greville (1827)
"stipes either almost wanting, or 6-10 inches in height, mostly erect and lateral,
rarely centrical or vertical. It is often an inch or more in thickness, ..."
3. A History of British Ferns by Edward Newman (1854)
"finally pendulous; its size varies from that of the frond represented in figure
a at page 49, to nine inches in length, exclusive of the stipes. ..."
4. The Flora of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1890)
"Lip jointed at the base, gibbous or shortly spurred. stipes of the ... stipes of
the pollinia narrow. Flowers in simple or branched racemes. ..."
5. Scottish Cryptogamic Flora, Or Coloured Figures and Descriptions of by Robert Kaye Greville (1825)
"It is generally placed in some degree obliquely on the stipes, with its base
attenuated and decurrent down the sides of the stipes; in other words, ..."
6. Handbook of the Flora of Philadelphia and Vicinity: Containing Data Relating by Ida Augusta Keller, Stewardson Brown (1905)
"stipes blackish throughout; lobes acute or acuminate. ... stipes chestnut-brown
throughout, as also the lower part of the rachis. 8. A. Bradleyi. ..."
7. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1842)
"stipes is also applied то the setae of some Mosses, as those of Sphagnum and ...
in such Lichens as Calicium, Conio- eybe, and Ba-omyces, is called stipes. ..."
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