| a. | 1. | (Bot.) Situated between the petiole and the stem; - said of the pair of stipules at the base of a petiole when united by those margins next the petiole, thus seeming to form a single stipule between the petiole and the stem or branch; - often confounded with interpetiolar, from which it differs essentially in meaning. |
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