But the Southern knights constantly wore these lateral dragon's wings; and if I can find their special name, it may perhaps be substituted with advantage for 'stipule'; but I have not wit enough by me just now to invent a term.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference

At other times they become united in such a manner as to produce a single notched stipule opposite to the leaf.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

The stipules may also be fused together in different ways; their edges sometimes cohere between the leaf and the stem, and thus form a solitary intra-axillary stipule.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

Theophrastus was not very successful in distinguishing the nature of the primary elements of plants, though he was able to separate root, stem, leaf, stipule, and flower on morphological as well as to a limited extent on physiological grounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

In some instances hypertrophy is the opposite of suppression; as in the case previously mentioned, where the stipule in the inflorescence of a pea, which is usually undeveloped and rudimentary, was developed in the form of a leafy cup or pitcher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

Dauversiere n'ont stipule qu'au nom de la Compagnie de Montreal, MS.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century] Reference

They may be lasting and not be shed (a beans); or be shed as the leaf expands, leaving a stipule scar on the twig (an exstipulate leaf).    From Wordnik.com.  [Wikibooks - Recent changes [en]] Reference

As true leaves begin to emerge between 5 and 7 dpg, a stipule signal appears, followed by transient definition of the leaf vascular traces, prior to differentiation of the xylem vessels (.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference