stipe

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noun supporting stalk or stem-like structure especially of a pistil or fern frond or supporting a mushroom cap

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

Nevertheless, it is veriform, that because Mammona doth not supergurgitate anything in my loculs, that I am somewhat rare and lent to supererogate the elemosynes to those egents that hostially queritate their stipe. — Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais

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