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An appendage at the base of petioles or leaves, usually somewhat resembling a small leaf in texture and appearance.

Furnished with stipules, or leafy appendages.

Having two stipules.

Having no stipules. Martyn.

An accessory organ such as a tendril, stipule, spine, and the like. [R.] Gray.

r receptacle, around which the seed capsules are arranged, and membranous projections, or stipules, at the joints. Most of the species have showy flowers and a pungent odor. Called sometimes crane's-bill.

Growing immediately above, or in front of, a leaf; as, intrafoliaceous stipules.

Situated between the petiole and the stem; -- said of the pair of stipules at the base of a petiole when united by those margins next the petiole, thus seeming to form a single stipule between the petiole and the stem or branch; -- often confounded with interpetiolar, from which it differs essentially in meaning.…

A kind of sheath formed by two stipules united round a stem.

Provided with ochrea, or sheathformed stipules, as the rhubarb, yellow dock, and knotgrass.

from Sheathe. Inclosing with a sheath; as, the sheathing leaves of grasses; the sheathing stipules of many polygonaceous plants.

Not adhering; loose; -- opposed to adnate; as, a solute stipule.

The stipule of a leaflet. Gray.

A stipule.

Of or pertaining to stipules; resembling stipules; furnished with stipules; growing on stipules, or close to them; occupying the position of stipules; as, stipular glands and stipular tendrils.

Of or pertaining to stipules; stipular.

Furnished with stipules; as, a stipulate leaf.

The situation, arrangement, and structure of the stipules.