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stele
[stee-lee, steel, steel, stee-lee]
noun
plural
stelai, stelesan upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument, marker, or the like.
Architecture.a prepared surface on the face of a building, a rock, etc., bearing an inscription or the like.
(in ancient Rome) a burial stone.
Botany.the central cylinder or cylinders of vascular and related tissue in the stem, root, petiole, leaf, etc., of the higher plants.
stele
/ ˈstiːlə, ˈstiːlɪ, stiːl /
noun
an upright stone slab or column decorated with figures or inscriptions, common in prehistoric times
a prepared vertical surface that has a commemorative inscription or design, esp one on the face of a building
the conducting tissue of the stems and roots of plants, which is in the form of a cylinder, principally containing xylem, phloem, and pericycle See also protostele siphonostele
stele
The central core of primary vascular tissues in the stem or root of a vascular plant, consisting of xylem and phloem together with pith.
Other Word Forms
- stelar adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of stele1
Example Sentences
The room’s most impressive object is a 5th century BC carved marble stele, 8 feet tall.
The priests were standing near a field of ancient obelisks, or stelae, which date from the 4th Century.
In a historic agreement with the Republic of Yemen, the museum will research and temporarily care for the funerary stelae.
The stele was illegally excavated near the ancient city of Zeugma, in what is near Gaziantep, in present-day southeastern Turkey, the police said.
Sixty-five of the artifacts are funerary stelae — stone slabs featuring carved heads — traced to the second half of the first millennium B.C. in northwest Yemen.
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