stele
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Is stele a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (archaeology) An upright (or formerly upright) slab containing engraved or painted decorations or inscriptions; a stela.Examples: "A superior class of members...had their names inscribed upon a marble stélé or column."; "It appears, that when any one of the family died, a stelè to his memory was added to the tomb."; "In Egypt [obelisks] belonged to the class of steles (commemorative pillars)."
2. (archaeology, uncommon) Any carved or engraved surface.Examples: "Two large hieroglyphed steles incised upon the face of a projecting mass of boldly rounded cliff."uncommon
3. (architecture, archaeology, obsolete) An acroterion, the decoration on the ridge of an ancient Greek building such as a temple.Examples: "Stele. The ornaments on the ridge of a Greek temple, answering to the antefixæ on the summit of the flank entablatures, are thus designated."obsolete
noun (English)
1. (botany) The central core of a plant's root and stem system, especially including the vascular tissue and developed from the plerome.Examples: "The stele may have—in different structures—one to many protoxylem (primitive wood) groups, and is accordingly described as monarch...diarch...triarch...tetrarch...polyarch."; "The so-called central cylinder, for which Van Tieghem has proposed the name stele (column)."
Definition source: Wiktionary