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stipe

/staɪp/

stipe noun: the stem of a mushroom, kelp, etc.

stipe: the stem of a mushroom, kelp, etc
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Noun (1)

stipe (plural stipes)

  1. The stem of a mushroom, kelp, etc.
    • Habitually, the phosphorescence is distributed in an unequal manner upon the stipe, and the same upon the gills.1880, Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, Fungi: Their Nature, Influence, and Uses, New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 107
  2. The trunk of a tree.
  3. The caudicle within the pollinarium of an orchid flower
  4. The petiole of the frond of a fern or palm
    • The stipes or bare portion of the frond is, as a rule, about the same length as the leafy portion.1917, S. Leonard Bastin, How to Know the Ferns, London: Methuen & Co

Noun (2)

stipe (plural stipes)

  1. (historical, slang) A stipendiary magistrate.
    • The lay magistrates in many parts of the country were cautious about the infringement by stipendiaries on to their particular patch, not least being that the stipe would take the more interesting work and leave them the dross.2015, Barrington Black, Both Sides of the Bench, page 186

stipe meaning in Tamil

stipe in Tamil

குடை தாங்கி, தண்டு

Examples of stipe in a sentence

  • In this group of mushrooms, the attachment of the gills to the stipe is sinuate.
  • In this group of mushrooms, the attachment of the gills to the stipe is adnexed.
  • In this group of mushrooms, the attachment of the gills to the stipe is subdecurrent.

All 11 example sentences with stipe

Forms of stipe

pluralstipes

Plural of stipe: stipes

Origin of stipe

From French stipe, from Latin stīpes (“a stock, post, branch”).

Shortened from stipendiary.

Words formed from stipe

Words that rhyme with stipe

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Questions about stipe

What does stipe mean?
Stipe means the stem of a mushroom, kelp, etc.
What is stipe in Tamil?
Stipe in Tamil is குடை தாங்கி, தண்டு. See Stipe meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is stipe?
Stipe is a noun.
How do you pronounce stipe?
Stipe is pronounced /staɪp/.
What is the plural of stipe?
The plural of stipe is stipes.

Words near stipe in the dictionary

  1. stip
  2. stipa
  3. stiparin
  4. stipas
  5. stipate
  6. stipe
  7. stiped
  8. stipel
  9. stipeless
  10. stipella
  11. stipellae

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stipe (page history and authors); stipe (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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