Definition of "exstipulate" [ex•stip•u•late]

• Having no stipules. (adjective)

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• "At this camp I obtained seeds of a dwarf spreading tree, with alternate exstipulate primate leaves, and axillary racemes of a round flattened fruit, similar in size and shape to the small blue fig cultivated in gardens, of a dark purple colour, and possessing a flavour similar to an Orleans plum when hardly ripe, with a hard rough stone inside."
• "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)."