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Stipule

/ˈstɪpjuːl/

Basal appendage of a typical leaf of a flowering plant, usually appearing paired beside the petiole although sometimes absent or highly modified.

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Basal appendage of a typical leaf of a flowering plant, usually appearing paired beside the petiole although sometimes absent or highly modified.

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scarsnoun	A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.
pseudostipulenoun	(botany, usually in the plural) An often modified basal pair of leaflets of a compound leaf appearing very close to the stem.
stipelnoun	(botany) A stipule associated with a leaflet rather than a complete leaf.
stipellanoun	(botany, uncommon) Alternative form of stipel. [(botany) A stipule associated with a leaflet rather than a complete leaf.]
stipulanoun	(botany) A stipule.
petiolenoun	(botany) The stalk of a leaf, attaching the blade to the stem.
pseudopetiolenoun	(botany) The petiole of some monocotyledon leaves which is not part of the lower leaf zone.
ligulenoun	(botany) A portion of a leaf found at the base of the petiole, when present.
extrapetiolar stipulenoun	(botany) A stipule located 90° from the point of insertion of its corresponding petiole.
stipenoun	The stem of a mushroom, kelp, etc.
stipulationnoun	The act of stipulating; a contracting or bargaining; an agreement.
pedunclenoun	(botany) The stalk supporting an inflorescence or a solitary flower/fruit.
petiolulenoun	(botany) The petiole of a pinna or pinnule.
stalknoun	The stem or main axis of a plant.
leaf sheathnoun	(botany) A structure at the base of a leaf's petiole that partly surrounds or protect the stem or another organ that it subtends.
pointletnoun	(botany) An extension of the rachis past the last leaf pair in a paripinnate leaf that usually represent an aborted leaf.
stylopodnoun	(botany) A stylopodium.
stylopodiumnoun	(botany) An expansion at the base of the style, as in umbelliferous plants.
pinnulenoun	(botany) Any of the ultimate leaflets of a bipinnate or tripinnate leaf; a subleaflet.
stylulusnoun	(botany) The elongated apex of a free carpel which functions like the style of a syncarpous ovary, allowing pollen tubes from its stigma to enter the locule of only that carpel.