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Webster 1913 Edition


Stipula

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Stip′u-la

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Noun.
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pl. E.
Stipulas
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, L.
Stipulae
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[L., a stalk, stem.]
1.
(Bot.)
A stipule.
2.
(Zool.)
A newly sprouted feather.

Webster 1828 Edition


Stipula

STIPULA

, STIPULE,
Noun.
[L., a straw or stubble.] In botany, a scale at the base of nascent petioles or peduncles. Stipules are in pairs or solitary; they are lateral, extrafoliaceous, intrafoliaceous, &c. A leafy appendage to the proper leaves or to their footstalks; commonly situated at the base of the latter, in pairs.