Definition of Stipitate

1. a. Supported by a stipe; elevated on a stipe, as the fronds of most ferns, or the pod of certain cruciferous plants.

Definition of Stipitate

1. Adjective. Possessing a stalk. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stipitate

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stipitate

stipel
stipella
stipellae
stipellar
stipellate
stipels
stipend
stipendary
stipendiaries
stipendiary
stipendiary magistrate
stipendless
stipends
stipes
stipiform
stipitate (current term)
stipites
stipitiform
stipped
stipping
stipple
stippled
stippler
stipplers
stipples
stippling
stipplings
stips
stiptic
stiptics

Literary usage of Stipitate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Sketch of the Botany of South-Carolina and Georgia by Stephen Elliott (1824)
"ricate, crowned with a stipitate hairy pappus. Receptacle convex, dotted, naked. The leaves and stalk of this plant, like those of most of the ..."

2. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"... and buck occasionally beset with sessile or short-stipitate. ... somewhat viscid, above beset with scattered stipitate blackish glands. ..."

3. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1905)
"G. Tsugae Murrill B. THE stipitate SPECIES OF HEXAGONA 1. Surface glabrous to fibrillose, not distinctly hispid. 2 Surface hispid; tubes small ; context ..."

4. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1901)
"Seeds o.blong, somewhat flattened, pus, foot or support, the ovary more or less stipitate.) Cauline leaves sessile or the lower frequently petioled; ..."

5. The Student's Flora of the British Islands by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1878)
"Perianth-tube short, rarely long ; sepals large, stipitate, reflexed, stipes channelled ; petals smaller, suberect, stipitate, margins of stipes involute. ..."

6. Illustrations of South American Plants by John Miers (1850)
"9, a longitudinal section of the lower portion of the calyx, showing the half of the persistent stipitate remains of the corolla, and the ovarium seated on ..."

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