stipitate, a. Bot. and Zool.
(ˈstɪpɪteɪt)
[ad. mod.L. stīpitātus, f. L. stīpit- stipes: see -ate2.]
Having or furnished with a stipes or stipe; stalked.
| 1785 Martyn Lett. Bot. xxvi. 381 Tragopogon or Goat's⁓beard is known by..its..feathered stipitate down. 1818 T. Nuttall Genera N. Amer. Plants II. 73 Capsule siliquose, stipitate. 1837 P. Keith Bot. Lex. 43 Of the Stipitate Fungi a great many are furnished with a sort of conical or flattened production surmounting the stipe,..[called] the cap or pileus. 1845 Lindley Sch. Bot. iv. (1858) 87 Pappus feathery, stipitate, or sessile. 1846 Dana Zooph. (1848) 157 Coralla..stipitate. 1866 Treas. Bot. 1101/1 Stipitate, elevated on a stalk which is neither a petiole nor a peduncle; as, for example, some kinds of carpels. 1870 Hooker Stud. Flora 363 Iris..sepals large, stipitate, reflexed, stipes channelled; petals smaller, suberect stipitate, margins of stipes involute. 1882 H. J. Carter in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. v. IX. 283 Fibularia ramosa. Stipitate, subcylindrical, solid, [etc.]. |
Also † stipitated a. Obs. (in the same sense).
| 1822 J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 41 Sessile calix—Turbinated, stipitated. |