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stipes
[ stahy-peez ]
noun
- Zoology. the second joint in a maxilla of crustaceans and insects.
- Botany, Mycology. a stipe.
stipes
/ ˈstaɪpiËz; ˈstaɪpɪˌfÉ”Ëm; ˈstɪpɪtɪˌfÉ”Ëm /
noun
- the second maxillary segment in insects and crustaceans
- the eyestalk of a crab or similar crustacean
- any similar stemlike structure
Derived Forms
- stipiform, adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of stipes1
Example Sentences
To study this, a team of Japanese researchers inserted subdermal needle electrodes into the caps and stipes of a type of mushroom called Laccaria bicolor.
The current American flag, which features 50 stars and 13 stipes to represent each U.S. state and the original British colonies that declared their independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Like plants, these redwoods of the sea have three main parts: blades, which take the place of leaves; stipes, which replace the stems or trunks; and holdfasts that act as roots.
Rootstocks creeping, branched, often covered with chaffy scales, bearing scattered roundish knobs, to which the stipes are attached by a distinct articulation.
The maxill� are strong, with complicated stipes and with two flat, thin lobes, the inner one smaller than the outer and rounded at the tip, both lobes being ciliate.
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