stele
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li, stil noun, plural ste·lai 
[stee-lahy] , ste·les [stee-leez, steelz] .
[stee-lahy] , ste·les [stee-leez, steelz] . 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.
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| —n , pl stelae, steles | |
| 1. | an upright stone slab or column decorated with figures or inscriptions, common in prehistoric times |
| 2. | a prepared vertical surface that has a commemorative inscription or design, esp one on the face of a building |
| 3. | protostele See also siphonostele the conducting tissue of the stems and roots of plants, which is in the form of a cylinder, principally containing xylem, phloem, and pericycle |
| [C19: from Greek stēlē; related to Greek histanai to stand, Latin stāre] | |
| stelar | |
| —adj | |
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Word Origin & History
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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Science Dictionary
| stele (stēl, stē'lē) Pronunciation Key
The central core of primary vascular tissues in the stem or root of a vascular plant, consisting of xylem and phloem together with pith. |
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Example sentences
Seedlings from this cross were screened for resistance to red stele.
As the stele increases in diameter, the cortex, pericycle and endodermis are lost.
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