Bot. Also 9 stipelle. [ad. F. stipelle, ad. mod.L. stipella: see next.] (See quots.)
1821. S. F. Gray, Brit. Plants, I. 84. Stipelle. Stipella, a kind of stipule placed at the base of the leaflets on the common petiole.
1835. Lindley, Introd. Bot. (1839), 144. In pinnated leaves there is often a pair of stipules at the base of each leaflet, as well as two at the base of the common petiole: stipules, under such circumstances, are called stipels.
