stele

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

An upright (or formerly upright) slab containing engraved or painted decorations or inscriptions; a stela.
Any carved or engraved surface.
An acroterion, the decoration on the ridge of an ancient Greek building such as a temple.

noun

The central core of a plant's root and stem system, especially including the vascular tissue and developed from the plerome.

/ˈstiːli/ /stiːl/ En-us-steely.ogg

stele steles stelai stélé stelè

From Ancient Greek στήλη (stḗlē, “upright rock; pillar; column”), plural form στῆλαι (stêlai). Doublet of stela.

stela

astelic bistelic gamostele monostele polystele actinostele atactostele dictyostele eustele haplostele plectostele protostele siphonostele solenostele

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