stipitate

American  

[stip-i-teyt] / 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

Example Sentences

Sessile and plasmodiocarpous forms do occur with the typical stipitate phase, but may be regarded here as elsewhere as indicative of incomplete development.

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 MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)

The aerial fructification and stipitate habit of the higher forms tends in the same direction.

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 MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)

The sporangia are said to be sometimes stipitate.

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 MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)

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 Gray, Asa

Entirely rusty, stipitate; p. oblique, almost glabrous; g. sinuato-free, ventricose; s. very excentric, short, base dilated, incurved; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George