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stele
[ stee-lee, steel steel, stee-lee ]
noun
- 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
/ stiːl; ˈstiːlə; ˈstiːlɪ /
noun
- 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
- See siphonostele, protostelethe 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.
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Derived Forms
- stelar, adjective
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Other Words From
- ste·lar [stee, -ler], adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of stele1
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Example Sentences
The stele is shown by Lepsius in his Auswahl, Plate 9, and is the earliest example of a hieroglyphic inscription known.
Such an inscription is so far biographical, and a similar spirit may extend to the decorations of the stele and walls of the tomb.
At its further end, and always facing eastwards, stands the inscribed tablet or stele.
We see, then, that the stele is the one indispensable part of this complicated whole.
Sometimes this chamber is nothing more than a recess in the façade, a mere frame for the stele.
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