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STELE
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Irregular inflected form: stelae
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings
Synonyms:
stela; stele
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("stele" is a kind of...):
antiquity (an artifact surviving from the past)
stone (building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose)
Instance hyponyms:
Rosetta Stone (a part of an inscribed granite stela that was originally about six feet tall and was set up in 196 BC; the inscriptions in hieroglyphics and Demotic and Greek gave the first clues to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The usually cylindrical central vascular portion of the axis of a vascular plant
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("stele" is a kind of...):
vascular tissue (tissue that conducts water and nutrients through the plant body in higher plants)
Holonyms ("stele" is a part of...):
axis (the main stem or central part about which plant organs or plant parts such as branches are arranged)
