stipes
Americannoun
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stipites
plural
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Zoology. the second joint in a maxilla of crustaceans and insects.
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Botany, Mycology. a stipe.
noun
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the second maxillary segment in insects and crustaceans
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the eyestalk of a crab or similar crustacean
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any similar stemlike structure
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Origin of stipes
1750–60; < Latin stīpes; see stipe
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Stretching "so far" to 35 years, shows just how much "good" those stipes have brought him.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
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 ● May 9, 2023
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 ● Jun. 14, 2021
The stipes of giant kelps are enormous, extending in some cases for 60 meters.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Its stipes, however, seems proportionally stouter than that of any of the smaller ferns with which I am acquainted.
From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Hugh Miller
A membrane also extends between the stipites and lora, and closes the cavity at the back of the head.
From Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants and Other Stinging Insects by Edward Saunders
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