stellate
adjective
like the form of a conventionalized figure of a star; star-shaped.
stellately
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a word derived from
stellate.
Example Sentences
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Female spikelets are collected in large globose heads of stellately spreading very long rigid rod-like processes surrounded by shorter subulate bracts.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
Botanical Description.—A tree with stellately arranged straight branches.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas
