Crossword-Solution: STIPULES
We have 4 clues for the answer “STIPULES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| LEAF-base, outgrowth of | 1 answer |
| Leaf adjuncts | 1 answer |
| Leaflike plant parts | 1 answer |
| LEAF stalk, outgrowth at base of | 2 answers |
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EZECMA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with STIPULES (5)
Certain plants excrete sweet juice, apparently for the sake of eliminating something injurious from the sap: this is effected, for instance, by glands at the base of the stipules in some Leguminosæ, and at the backs of the leaves of the common laurel.
True tendrils are formed by the modification of leaves with their petioles, of flower-peduncles, branches, {84} and perhaps stipules.
The flour still adhered to this side; I see little bracteae or stipules apparently with glandular ends at the base of the calyces.
The stipules of the common vetch secrete largely during sunshine, and hive-bees collect the sweet fluid.
Moquin-Tandon describes a monstrous bean,[7] in which the stipules were enormously developed, and the leaflets apparently in consequence completely aborted; this case is interesting, as it represents the natural condition of _Lathyrus aphaca,_ with its stipules of great size, and its leaves reduced to mere threads, which act as tendrils.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1975–1983).