stipe

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

• IPA^(key): /staɪp/
• Rhymes: -aɪp

stipe (plural stipes)

1. The stem of a mushroom, kelp, etc.
2. The trunk of a tree.
3. The caudicle within the pollinarium of an orchid flower
4. The petiole of the frond of a fern or palm

• stipitate

• IP set, piets, piste, septi-, spite

stipe

1. ablative singular of stips

stipe c (plural stipen, diminutive stypke)

1. support beam
2. support, aid

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