stipitate
[stip-i-teyt]
- having or supported by a stipe: a stipitate ovary.
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Origin of stipitate
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The sporophores are inclined to be simple, stipitate and dendroid.
The North American Slime-MouldsThomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
The aerial fructification and stipitate habit of the higher forms tends in the same direction.
The North American Slime-MouldsThomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
The sporangia in the same cluster are stipitate and sessile, ovoid and spherical.
The North American Slime-MouldsThomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
A very well marked species, easily recognized, at least when stipitate, by its remarkable discoid or lenticular sporangia.
The North American Slime-MouldsThomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
It is a stipitate licea, or a lid-covered cribraria; perhaps nearer the former.
The North American Slime-MouldsThomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
stipitate
- botany possessing or borne on the end of a stipe
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Word Origin
C18: from New Latin stīpitātus having a stalk, from Latin stīpes; see stipe
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