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ste·le

[stee-lee, steel for 1–3; steel, stee-lee for 4] Pronunciation Key

–noun, plural ste·lai

[stee-lahy] Pronunciation Key, ste·les

[stee-leez, steelz] Pronunciation Key.

1.	an upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument, marker, or the like.

2.	Architecture. a prepared surface on the face of a building, a rock, etc., bearing an inscription or the like.

3.	(in ancient Rome) a burial stone.

4.	Botany. the central cylinder or cylinders of vascular and related tissue in the stem, root, petiole, leaf, etc., of the higher plants.

Also, stela (for defs. 1–3).

[Origin: 1810–20; < Gk stlé, akin to histánai to make stand, L stāre to stand

]

—Related forms

ste·lar

[stee-ler] Pronunciation Key, adjective

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ste·le (stē'lē, stēl) Pronunciation Key
n.

also ste·la (stē'lə) pl. steles also ste·lae (-lē) 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.
stele (stēl, stē'lē) The central core of tissue in the stem or root of a vascular plant, consisting of the xylem and phloem together with supporting tissues.

[Greek stēlē, pillar; see stel- in Indo-European roots.]

ste'lar (-lər) adj.

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stele

"upright slab," usually inscribed, 1820, from Gk. stele "standing block, slab," related to stellein "to set in order, arrange," from PIE *stel- (see stet).

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