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stype

stype is the obsolete spelling of stipe.

Meaning of stipe

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

Forms of stype

pluralstypes

Questions about stype

What is stype the obsolete spelling of?
Stype is the obsolete spelling of stipe.

Words near stype in the dictionary

  1. Stymphalians
  2. Stymphalides
  3. Stymphalus
  4. stymy
  5. stymying
  6. stype
  7. stypes
  8. styphnate
  9. styphnates
  10. styphnic
  11. styphnic acid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stype (page history and authors); stipe (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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