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stipeless

stipeless adjective: of or pertaining to mushrooms or other types of fungus that have no stipe or stem.

Adjective

stipeless (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to mushrooms or other types of fungus that have no stipe or stem.
    • The main fruiting body is about 1-4 cm wide, spongy as well as dense in texture, flabelliform shaped, with small stipes which become stipeless at maturity.2023, chapter 14, in Ajay Sharma, Garima Bhardwaj, Gulzar Ahmad Nayik, editors, Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms of the Himalayas, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 1982

Origin of stipeless

From stipe + -less.

Questions about stipeless

What does stipeless mean?
Stipeless means of or pertaining to mushrooms or other types of fungus that have no stipe or stem.
What part of speech is stipeless?
Stipeless is an adjective.

Words near stipeless in the dictionary

  1. stipas
  2. stipate
  3. stipe
  4. stiped
  5. stipel
  6. stipeless
  7. stipella
  8. stipellae
  9. stipellar
  10. stipellate
  11. stipelli

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