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exstipulate

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

adjective

Botany.
  1. having no stipules.


exstipulate British  
/ -ˌleɪt, ɛkˈstɪpjʊlɪt /

adjective

  1. (of a flowering plant) having no stipules

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of exstipulate

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

Example Sentences

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The members of this genus are shrubs or small trees having alternate, exstipulate leaves, and flowers with three small sepals, six petals arranged in a double row and numerous stamens.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various

Shrubs or low trees with alternate, simple, exstipulate, ovate, serrulate leaves, soft downy beneath.

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)

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

Shrubs or trees with alternate, simple, deciduous, exstipulate, serrate leaves.

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

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