[a. F. stipe, ad. L. stīpes (stīpit-) log, post, tree-trunk (in mod.L. = sense 1).]

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  1.  Bot. A footstalk; in various applications: the stalk that supports the pileus of a fungus; the leafstalk of a fern; the support of a gynæceum or a carpel; = STIPES 1.

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1785.  Martyn, Lett. Bot., xxxii. (1794), 499. From these arises a stipe or stem supporting hollow conical receptacles.

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1821.  Sir J. E. Smith, Gram. Bot., 8. Stipes, a Stipe, is the Stem of a Frond as in Ferns, where it is commonly scaly; or the stalk of a Fungus.

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1837.  P. Keith, Bot. Lex., 46. If the stipe of Aspidium Filix-mas is divided by a transverse section, the section will exhibit [etc.].

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1861.  H. Macmillan, Footn. Page Nat., 214. The tubercle rapidly increases, until at last it produces from its interior, a long, thick, fleshy stem or stipe, surmounted by a pileus.

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  Comb.  1873.  E. Balfour, Cycl. India (ed. 2), V. 571. Stipe-clasping brake, Pteris amplexicaulis.

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  2.  Anat. ‘A stem: applied to two branches, anterior and posterior, of the zygal or paroccipital fissure of the brain.’

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1891.  Century Dict., citing B. G. Wilder.

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  3.  Zool. = STIPES.

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1891.  Century Dict.

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