stipitate

[ stip-i-teyt ]

adjective

1. having or supported by a stipe:

   a stipitate ovary.

stipitate

/ ˈstɪpɪˌteɪt /

adjective

1. botany possessing or borne on the end of a stipe

Word History and Origins

Origin of stipitate¹

1775–85; < New Latin stīpitātus, equivalent to stīpit- (stem of stīpes ) stipe + -ātus -ate ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of stipitate¹

C18: from New Latin stīpitātus having a stalk, from Latin stīpes; see stipe

Example Sentences

The stamens are very numerous, and are spirally arranged; and the carpels are variable in number, sessile or stipitate and slightly united at the base and dehisce by ventral suture.

From Project Gutenberg

Annual, slender; pubescence very fine; leaves narrowly oblanceolate; pods glabrous, suberect on ascending or curved pedicels, stipitate; style long.

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Pod many-seeded, not or scarcely stipitate.

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Pistils 3–8, stipitate; seeds flattened laterally, covered with chaffy scales, in one row in the membranaceous pods; style awl-shaped; stigma minute.

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Carpels few, stipitate, several-seeded.—Perennial herbs, with palmately multifid radical leaves, the scape bearing a single large yellow flower surrounded by an involucre of a single leaf.

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