exstipulate

American  

[eks-stip-yoo-lit, -leyt] / ɛksˈstɪp yʊ lɪt, -ˌleɪt /

adjective

Botany.

1. having no stipules.

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exstipulate British  

/ -ˌleɪt, ɛkˈstɪpjʊlɪt /

adjective

1. (of a flowering plant) having no stipules

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Etymology

Origin of exstipulate

First recorded in 1785–95; ex- ¹ + stipule + -ate ¹

Example Sentences

Slender trees with very hard wood, brownish, furrowed bark, and deciduous, alternate, simple, exstipulate, straight-veined leaves.

From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)

Trees with deciduous, alternate, exstipulate, usually entire leaves, mostly acute at both ends.

From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)

Trees with milky juice and alternate, deciduous, exstipulate, broad, heart-shaped, usually rough leaves.

From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)

Leaves simple, alternate, entire, sub-evergreen, exstipulate; branches often spiny.

From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)

Pod short, splitting into as many or twice as many valves as there are styles, few–many-seeded.—Low, usually tufted herbs, with sessile exstipulate leaves and small white flowers.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa