Noun: stipe
| Singular | stipe |
| Plural | stipes |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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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:]
Nouns inflected like stipe
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French stipe, from Latin stīpes (“a stock, post, branch”). See: French Nouns '
stipe', Latin Nouns '
stīpes'.