stipe

• IPA^(key): /staɪp/

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• Rhymes: -aɪp

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

stipe (plural stipes)

2. The stem of a mushroom, kelp, etc.
   • 1880, Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, Fungi: Their Nature, Influence, and Uses, New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 107:

     Habitually, the phosphorescence is distributed in an unequal manner upon the stipe, and the same upon the gills.

3. The trunk of a tree.
5. The caudicle within the pollinarium of an orchid flower
7. The petiole of the frond of a fern or palm
   • 1917, S. Leonard Bastin, How to Know the Ferns‎^[1], London: Methuen & Co:

     The stipes or bare portion of the frond is, as a rule, about the same length as the leafy portion.

• stipitate
• stipule

Shortened from stipendiary.

stipe (plural stipes)

1. (historical, slang) A stipendiary magistrate.
   • 2015, Barrington Black, Both Sides of the Bench, page 186:

     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.

• John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary

• IP set, piets, piste, septi-, spite

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stipe m (plural stipes)

1. stipe (stem)

• “stipe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

stipe

1. ablative singular of stips

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stipe c (plural stipen, diminutive stypke)

1. support beam
2. support, aid

• “stipe (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011