stipitate

American

[stip-i-teyt] / ˈstɪp ɪˌteɪt /

adjective

having or supported by a stipe.

a stipitate ovary.

stipitate British

/ ˈstɪpɪˌteɪt /

adjective

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

Example Sentences

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The stamens are very numerous, and are spirally arranged; and the carpels are variable in number, sessile or stipitate and slightly united at the base and dehisce by ventral suture.

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Pod coriaceous, stipitate, terete, more or less constricted between the seeds, indehiscent.

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Pod many-seeded, not or scarcely stipitate.

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Finely appressed-pubescent, 2–3° high; leaflets rhombic-lanceolate, 1–3´ long; stipules narrow, mostly shorter than the petiole; raceme elongated; pods narrow, short stipitate, somewhat curved, 2–4´ long.—Mountains of S. Va. and N. C.

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

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