Definition of Stipular

1. Adjective. (botany) Of, relating to, or constituting a stipule. ¹

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Definition of Stipular

1. stipule [adj] - See also: stipule

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stipular

stipitate
stipites
stipitiform
stipped
stipping
stipple
stippled
stippler
stipplers
stipples
stippling
stipplings
stips
stiptic
stiptics
stipular (current term)
stipulary
stipulate
stipulated
stipulates
stipulating
stipulation
stipulations
stipulative
stipulative definition
stipulativeness
stipulator
stipulators
stipulatory
stipule

Literary usage of Stipular

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1900)
"... greatly indebted, wrote: " You have certainly found something; but whether these glands should be considered stipular or not, I am not prepared to say. ..."

2. Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumerate and Describe the Flowering and by William Darlington (1837)
"... stipular, »ilh «mail utility flowers,—or sometimes ... leaves alternate, stipular; flowers axillary, with ж t.racl-like involucre, ..."

3. Handbook of Practical Botany: For the Botanical Laboratory and Private Student by Eduard Strasburger, William Hillhouse (1900)
"stipular Glands of the Pansy. —The large stipules of the pansy, Viola tricolor, are very deeply toothed, and bear at the apex of each tooth a beautiful ..."

4. The Student's Flora of the British Islands by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1878)
"Radical leaves with long petioles, 2-3-ternately-pin leaflets 1-3 in., ovate, acuminate, lobed and serrate, dark green, glab pinnate _ abrous stipular ..."

5. How to Study Plants: Or, Introduction to Botany, Being an Illustrated Flora by Alphonso Wood (1882)
"A pair of short, sharp spines occupy their place, especially in the younger shoots ; we may call them stipular spines, THE FLOWER REGION. ..."

6. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1876)
"Smooth, glaucous, slender, 3 to 8 inches high or more, few-flowered at the summit : leaves linear-setaceous, С to 8 lines long ; stipular glands conspicuous ..."

7. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Nearly smooth, excepting the calyx, a foot high, shortly branched above : stipular glands very small : flowers in close terminal clusters : sepals pubescent ..."

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