STIPULA, STIPULE, noun [Latin, a straw or stubble.] In botany, a scale at the base of nascent petioles or peduncles. Stipules are in pairs or solitary; they are lateral, extrafoliaceous, intrafoliaceous, etc. A leafy appendage to the proper leaves or to their footstalks; commonly situated at the base of the latter, in pairs.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.