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The stem of a mushroom, kelp, etc.
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The trunk of a tree.
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The caudicle within the pollinarium of an orchid flower
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The petiole of the frond of a fern or palm
Examples of stipe in a Sentence
In Laminariaceae there is a distinction of stipe and blade.
While the laminated portion of the thallus is being gradually worn off in our latitudes during the autumnal storms, a vigorous new growth appears at the junction of the stipe and the blade, as the result of which a new piece is added to the stipe and the lamina entirely renovated.
It has almost no stipe, producing pinnae from very close to the ground.
The frond is held on a very long stipe giving the plant quite an open airy appearance.
This is the case in the Fucaceae, and in a very marked degree in the Laminariaceae in question, where the assimilative frond is borne at the end of an extremely long supporting and conducting stipe.
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