Stele

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An upright stone or slab with an inscribed or sculptured surface, used as a monument or as a commemorative tablet in the face of a building.
  • n. The central core of tissue in the stem or root of a vascular plant, consisting of the xylem and phloem together with supporting tissues.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A tall, slender stone monument, often with writing carved into its surface
  • n. The central core of the root and shoot system, especially including the vascular tissue.
  • n. The body of the arrow.
  • n. A stale, or handle; a stalk.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Same as stela.
  • n. A stale, or handle; a stalk.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An old spelling of steal, steal.
  • n. An obsolete form of stale.
  • n. In archaeology: An upright slab or pillar, often crowned with a rich anthemion, and sometimes bearing more or less elaborate sculpture or a painted scene, commonly used among the ancient Greeks as a gravestone.
  • n. A similar slab or pillar serving as a milestone, to bear an inscription in some public place, or for a like purpose.
  • n. In botany, the axial cylinder of a stem, beginning as the plerome (see plerome, 2, and plerome-sheath) and passing into the older tissues which supply the vascular tissue of the plant.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an ancient upright stone slab bearing markings
  • n. the usually cylindrical central vascular portion of the axis of a vascular plant
  • Hypernym
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    stelae    stela   
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    stalk   
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