stipule

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   one of a pair of small, often leaflike appendages at the base of a leaf stalk

   A narrow stipule flanked the base of each young rose leaf.

Borrowed through French from Latin stipula, 'stalk, stem, or straw,' a diminutive related to stipes, 'trunk or stock.' Botanists applied it to the small appendages that stand beside many leaf stalks.

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