Botany. = ocrea, n. 1. Obsolete.

= stipule, n. Botany.

Botany. A lateral appendage (often resembling a small leaf or scale) borne in pairs upon the leaf-base of certain plants. Also applied to a…

Botany. A footstalk; in various applications: the stalk which supports the pileus of a fungus; the leafstalk of a fern; the support of a gynæceum…

(See quots.)

Botany. A dry sheath around a stem or stalk; (usually) spec. one formed by the cohesion of two or more stipules, characteristic of the dock family Po…

†(a) a stipule (obsolete); (b) (in certain mosses and liverworts) a small, finely-divided, leaf-like structure on the stem between leaves.

= stipel, n.