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stele

[ stee-lee, steel steel, stee-lee ]

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noun

, plural ste·lai [stee, -lahy], ste·les [stee, -leez, steelz].

an 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 /

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

/ stēl,stē′lē /

The central core of primary vascular tissues in the stem or root of a vascular plant, consisting of xylem and phloem together with pith.

Origin of stele¹

First recorded in 1810–20; from Greek stḗlē, akin to histánai “to make stand,” Latin stāre “to stand”; stand

Origin of stele¹

C19: from Greek stēlē; related to Greek histanai to stand, Latin stāre

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