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Definition of Stipules
1. stipule [n] - See also: stipule
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stipules
Literary usage of Stipules
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"frequently, so that the stipules may appear as small teeth or may be entirely
wanting. Their absence is teleologically explained when the protection of the ..."
2. The Flora of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1890)
"Meissner describes the stipules as 6-nerved, and the margins of the leaves u
revolute, neither of which is the ease in my specimens. ..."
3. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology, and by Alphonso Wood (1873)
"stipules are certain leaf-like expansions, always in pairs, situated one on each
... stipules ARE OFTEN ADNATE or adherent to the petiole, as in the rose ..."
4. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science by Indiana Academy of Science (1922)
"UNUSUAL stipules OF ACER NIGRUM MICHX. FLORA ANDERSON, Indiana University.
In the autumn of 1921 when the leaves began to fall, some leaves of Acer nigrum ..."
5. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "Lessons in Botany by Asa Gray (1887)
"stipules. 174. A leaf complete in its parts consists of blade, leaf-stalk or
petiole, and a pair of stipules. But most leaves have either fugacious or ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The stipules are very varied in form; they generally stand between the petioles
of a pair of ... The two stipules of adjacent leaves are usually united, ..."
7. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"... possess leaf appendages known as stipules, which usually occur in pairs, one
at each side of the petiole near its base. 944 Fios. 94J-944. ..."
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