stipitate

American  

[stip-i-tayt] / ˈstɪp ɪˌteɪt /

adjective

1. having or supported by a stipe.

   a stipitate ovary.

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stipitate British  

/ ˈstɪpɪˌteɪt /

adjective

1. botany possessing or borne on the end of a stipe

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Etymology

Origin of stipitate

1775–85; < New Latin stīpitātus, equivalent to stīpit- (stem of stīpes ) stipe + -ātus -ate ¹

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Example Sentences

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stipitate

Pods elongated, thickish, knobby, stipitate, many-seeded, at length 2-valved.

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 Asa Gray

Pod sessile or shortly stipitate in the calyx, flat, linear, straight or curved.

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 Asa Gray

P. thin, stipitate at first then resupinate and stem disappearing, tomentose, clear yellow then pale; g. crowded, orange-yellow then cinnamon; sp. rusty.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

Pistils 3–8, stipitate; seeds flattened laterally, covered with chaffy scales, in one row in the membranaceous pods; style awl-shaped; stigma minute.

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 Asa Gray

Normally stipitate, it often shows from the same plasmodium all sorts of forms, the shape of the fructification dependent apparently upon external conditions prevalent at the time.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride

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