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stipule

/stip-yool/US // ˈstɪp yul //UK // (ˈstɪpjuːl) //

规定,托叶,托词,规定的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Botany.

    • : one of a pair of lateral appendages, often leaflike, at the base of a leaf petiole in many plants.

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Examples

  • At the base of each leaf is a toothed stipule with, usually, a dark spot in the centre.

  • Leaves opposite without stipules (petioles sometimes with stipule-like appendages).

  • Amphigastrium (plural, amphigastria), a peculiar stipule-like leaf of Liverworts.

  • Un ministre stipule pour le Roi, mais il travaille et craint pour lui-mme.

  • At first a sheathing stipule, like a little leafy ruffle, grows at the base of each leaf, but this is shed before midsummer.