stipes

American  

[stahy-peez] / ˈstaɪ piz /

noun

plural

stipites

1. Zoology. the second joint in a maxilla of crustaceans and insects.

2. Botany, Mycology. a stipe.

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stipes British  

/ ˈstaɪpiːz, ˈstaɪpɪˌfɔːm, ˈstɪpɪtɪˌfɔːm /

noun

1. the second maxillary segment in insects and crustaceans

2. the eyestalk of a crab or similar crustacean

3. any similar stemlike structure

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Other Word Forms

• stipiform adjective

Etymology

Origin of stipes

1750–60; < Latin stīpes; stipe

Example Sentences

To study this, a team of Japanese researchers inserted subdermal needle electrodes into the caps and stipes of a type of mushroom called Laccaria bicolor.

From Salon

The current American flag, which features 50 stars and 13 stipes to represent each U.S. state and the original British colonies that declared their independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain.

From Fox News

Like plants, these redwoods of the sea have three main parts: blades, which take the place of leaves; stipes, which replace the stems or trunks; and holdfasts that act as roots.

From Science Magazine

Rootstocks creeping, branched, often covered with chaffy scales, bearing scattered roundish knobs, to which the stipes are attached by a distinct articulation.

From Project Gutenberg

The maxill� are strong, with complicated stipes and with two flat, thin lobes, the inner one smaller than the outer and rounded at the tip, both lobes being ciliate.

From Project Gutenberg